An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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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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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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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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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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