I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
JULES VERNEBut to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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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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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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