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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.

Jules Verne

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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Leadership Mistake Myself Science Truth
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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Beginning Better Optimism Preparation Surprise Wisdom Worst
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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Himself Identity Possible
An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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Death Energy Man Success
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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Creature Desire Establishment Heart Man Performance Survive World
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Beyond Endurance Human Pain Solitude
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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Care Clothes Culture Friendship Learning Love Ocean Woman World
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
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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Civilization Destruction Humanity Instrument Learning Perfection Reason Society Weapon
Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Civilization Force Law Necessary
There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, – in God’s good time.
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Better Future God Goodness Hope Life Time World
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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Constitution Feeling Imagination Man Purity Satisfaction Understand
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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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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Flower Nature Sea Soul
It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.

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