The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
JULES VERNEIt seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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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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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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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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