"The earth does not need new continents, but…" — Jules Verne
"The earth does not need new continents, but new men."
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151 Quotes by Jules Verne
Jules Verne has 151 quotes on this site.
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand…
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by…
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No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is…
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons…
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after…
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for…
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers…
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature…
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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More Continents Quotes
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Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth,…
— Annie Besant
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
— James Agee
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look…
— Bono
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
— Italo Calvino
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through…
— David Cameron
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
— David Cameron
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer…
— Richard Lamm
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