What darkness is to you is light is to me.
JULES VERNEIt must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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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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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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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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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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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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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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