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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

Jules Verne

Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

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