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With time and thought, one can do a good job.

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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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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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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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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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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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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I say, you do have a heart! Sometimes, he replied, when I have the time.
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Civilization never recedes the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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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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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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You will travel in a Land of Marvels
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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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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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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
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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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