It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
JULES VERNEIt 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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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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What I’d like to be above all is a writer.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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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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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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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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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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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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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It’s really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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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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What darkness is to you is light is to me.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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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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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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We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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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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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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