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Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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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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“In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“People without memory are putty.”
― Naomi Klein

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“We all know he kept a bowl of live frogs by his resting slab in the Oval Office that he would snack on during meetings.”
― John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require

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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

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