The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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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On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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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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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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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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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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