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"Got this book after the Oppenheimer movie, but am returning back to it. Just finished chapter 4 and wasn’t expecting a great analysis of WWI from this book." — Oct 25, 2025 12:42PM
"Got this book after the Oppenheimer movie, but am returning back to it. Just finished chapter 4 and wasn’t expecting a great analysis of WWI from this book." — Oct 25, 2025 12:42PM
Frankenstein
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how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
This was the one passage in Frankenstein that stuck out to me. Ignorance is bliss, but written with more panache.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but human nature remains the same.”
― The Vietnam War
― The Vietnam War
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