Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNEEverything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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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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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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