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
JULES VERNEWhat you do for money you do badly.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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