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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

Jules Verne

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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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Behaviour Human Mindset Natural
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
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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Calm Destroy Each Other Man Ocean Peace
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Lower Man Pride Yourself
There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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Impossible Obstacle Strong Weakness Willing
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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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
Man is so constituted that health is a purely negative state. Hunger once satisfied, it is difficult for a man to imagine the horrors of starvation; they cannot be understood without being felt.
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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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Capability Imagination Man Oneself
What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Darkness Light Myself Perspective Yourself
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Chance Last Lost Moments Philosophy Present

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