What you do for money you do badly.
JULES VERNEIf there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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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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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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