How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
JULES VERNECivilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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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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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word ‘love’ frightens me.
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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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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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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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