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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.

Jules Verne

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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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
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
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
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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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Himself Identity Possible
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Ability Creation Imagination Inspirational Man Motivational Team Work
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Deep Fear Lightning Man Nature Philosophy Thunder
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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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself

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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