The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
JULES VERNEWhy lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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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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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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