Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNEPoets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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