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
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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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