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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;

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“suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations. It was an invigorating sea breeze, charged with iodine. I opened my mouth wide, and my lungs saturated themselves with fresh particles.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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“The thunderbolt without the reverberations of thunder would frighten man but little, though the danger lies in the lightning, not in the noise.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

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“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.”
― Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

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“Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

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