The Abraham Lincoln, propelled by her wonderful screw, went straight at the animal.
“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
“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
“That day being Christmas Day, Ned Land seemed to regret sorely the non-celebration of "Christmas," the family fete of which Protestants are so fond.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“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
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