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- We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had…
- 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,…
- All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
- It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not…
- But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
- 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…
- 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…
- I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in…
- 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…
- Ah!" I cried, springing up. "But no! no! My uncle shall never know it. He would insist upon doing it too. He would want to…
- Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
- Look with all your eyes, look.
- All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
- 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…
- Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
- There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that’s all!
- But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, you…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they…
- Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its…
- You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle