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One Quotes by Jules Verne
- Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
- 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 distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are…
- I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
- 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…
- Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India,…
- [we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
- Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there…
- Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
- Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they…
- 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…
- Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
- What one man can think, another man can do.
- With time and thought, one can do a good job.
- How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!
- Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
- Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
- 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…
- 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…
- An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.
- 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…
- 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…
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