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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
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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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As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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There are no impossible obstacles there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
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It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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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 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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