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.
JULES VERNEScience, 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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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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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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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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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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What you do for money you do badly.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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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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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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