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

Jules Verne

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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Earth Feeling Health Lonely Man Nature Purity Science Sea
The 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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Civilization Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon
There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
What you do for money you do badly.
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Bad Money One Liner Work Yourself
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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Culture Education Enjoyment Establishment Experience Friendship Learning Live Ourselves Peace Respect Travel World
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Chance Last Lost Moments Philosophy Present
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
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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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Eat End Hungry People Philosophy
How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Creation Impossible Inspirational Motivational Reality
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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Achievement Eyes Impossible Mindset Mystery Right Yourself
I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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Heart Myself Time
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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Believe Cat Earth Fantasy Myself Spirit Walk
Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Man Nature Oneself Perfection Satisfaction
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Himself Identity Possible
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
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
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
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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Character Doubt Forget Future Mindset Past Performance Value

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