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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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Chris’s Quotes

“Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.”
― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

tags: gratitude, idolatry, technology

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“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.”
― 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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“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”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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