Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
JULES VERNEIn the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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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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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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