The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEAnything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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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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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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