Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
JULES VERNESo is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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