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" The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery. "

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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. "

Jules Verne

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" In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless. "

" The wisest man may be a blind father. "

" 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. "

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

" The industrial stomach cannot live without coal; industry is a carbonivorous animal and must have its proper food. "

" When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future. "

" I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you. "

" The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear. "

" When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey. "

" The body regulates the soul, and, like the balance-wheel, it is submitted to regular oscillations. "

" It may be taken for granted that, rash as Americans usually are, when they are prudent, there is good reason for it. "

" Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same! "

" If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence. "

" In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses. "

" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

" Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man. "

" A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. "

Jules Verne

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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? "

" Man is never perfect nor contented. "

" The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears. "

" The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it? "

" How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! "

" He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. "

Jules Verne

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" When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received. "

" Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament. "

" In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, 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 voyage from Liverpool to New York! "

" Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat. "

" The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. "

" To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe. "