But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
JULES VERNEThe 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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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What you do for money you do badly.
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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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