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