The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
JULES VERNEHow many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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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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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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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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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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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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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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