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Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.”
― Steve Martin

tags: insignificance, wealth

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“People without memory are putty.”
― Naomi Klein

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“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: capitalism, democracy, fascism

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“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
― Eugene Debs, Writings of Eugene V. Debs

tags: anti-militarism, anti-nationalism, compassion, cosmopolitan, humanity, universal-love

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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
― Groucho Marx

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