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Men Quotes by Jules Verne
- Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
- Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
- Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than…
- Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
- Man is never perfect nor contented.
- But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!
- 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…
- On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is…
- Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
- If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
- 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…
- The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
- 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,…
- What one man can think, another man can do.
- In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
- I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new
- Your dead sleep quietly, at least, Captain, out of reach of sharks" "Yes, sir, of sharks and men.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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