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?
JULES VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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