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Jules Verne

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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Believe Capability Constitution Employment Intense Light Togetherness Water
Liberty is worth paying for.
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Liberty One Liner Pay Price Worth
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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Oneself Poet Proverb
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Argument Best Destroy Force
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
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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Hope Inspirational Myself Perseverance Power Success
The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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Country Earth Man Need
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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Curiosity Life Myself Observation Pay See
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
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Beginning Earth End Nature Sea
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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Gift Heart Himself Hope Life Man Thinking
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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Discover Earth God Logic Reason Science
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Architect Build Goodness Greatness Universe
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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Brave Human Law Natural Oneself Resistance
We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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Oneself Perfection Science Theory

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