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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
Jules Verne
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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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A scholar has to know a little of everything.
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He was the most deliberate person in the world, yet always reached his destination at the exact moment. As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme. Around the world in eighty days
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What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known! And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
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How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
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The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
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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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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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