The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEI 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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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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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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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