Frankenstein
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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;
“settlers cannot be considered immigrants because immigrants are expected to obey the laws of the land when they arrive, while settlers make their own new laws of the land.”
― Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
― Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
“I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“The various forms of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people to be equally true, by the philosopher as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful. —EDWARD GIBBON, DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE”
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
― God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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