Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
JULES VERNEScent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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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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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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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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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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