If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
JULES VERNEPowder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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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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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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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.
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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 I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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