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.
JULES VERNESo 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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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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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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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
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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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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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