What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
JULES VERNEIn presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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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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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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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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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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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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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert…that as long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
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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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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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