What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
JULES VERNEEverything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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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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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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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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