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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

Jules Verne

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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Errors Man Mistake Right Science Truth
Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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Art Better Feeling Way Work Yourself
In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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Death Difference Memories
Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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Capability Imagination Reality
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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Abandonment Darkness Earth Eyes Light Night
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Ambition Human Limitation World
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
Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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Happiness Human Old Race War
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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Culture Education Enjoyment Establishment Experience Friendship Learning Live Ourselves Peace Respect Travel World
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Description Horror Portrait
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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Accomplishment Distance Earth Future Growth Water
Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Oneself Stop Time Train
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Dreams Imagination Inspirational Man Myself Possible Reality Team Work
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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Himself Spirit Travel
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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Emotion Existence Live Love Mystery Sea Wonderful
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

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