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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Jules Verne

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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
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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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Best Friendship Ourselves Sleep Wait
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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Body Creature Heart Life Need Soul Togetherness
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Impossible Inspirational Motivational
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
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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Believe Capability Constitution Employment Intense Light Togetherness Water
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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Education Knowledge One Liner

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

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