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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.

Jules Verne

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 Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Deep Fear Lightning Man Nature Philosophy Thunder
I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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Bad Expression Love Myself Scare Word
So 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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
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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Culture Education Enjoyment Establishment Experience Friendship Learning Live Ourselves Peace Respect Travel World
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
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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Believe Capability Constitution Employment Intense Light Togetherness Water
With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Goodness Job Oneself Thinking Time
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing

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