The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
JULES VERNEOn 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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There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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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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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
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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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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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