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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;
“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
“Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“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
“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
“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
NVCF Book Club
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— last activity Jan 16, 2021 06:55PM
Employees and friends of North Valley Community Foundation who like to read books
Chris’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Chris’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
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