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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.

Jules Verne

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
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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Dreams Job Myself Writing
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
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Best Listening Necessary Oneself Teaching
Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Man Nature Power Presence
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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See Travel Yourself

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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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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