All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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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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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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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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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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I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women’s clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager?
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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