Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNEBut 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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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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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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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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