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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Jules Verne

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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
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Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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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 sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
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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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I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
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You are going to visit the land of marvels.
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During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland
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Anything capable of being imagined will one day be made reality.
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As for difficulties, replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, they were made to be overcome.
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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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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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The colonists had no library at their disposal but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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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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