The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
JULES VERNEIt seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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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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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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