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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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Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Jules Gabriel Verne
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It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.
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And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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With time and thought, one can do a good job.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
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Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
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Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not
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In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
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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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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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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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What darkness to you is light to me
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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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It is certain, exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject and let no one get before us in this design of discovering the centre of the earth.
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We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
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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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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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