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“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 man's destructive instincts.”

Jules Verne

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Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long…

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

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“My uncle” is the natives’ usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity…

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“Kâlagani evidently knew this thinly-peopled region perfectly, and guided us across it most admirably. On the 29th September our train began to ascend the…

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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

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“— Isola in vendita per contanti, più le spese, al miglior offerente! — andava ripetendo a perdifiato Dean Felporg, banditore dell'auction, in cui venivano…

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It is certain," exclaimed my uncle in a tone of triumph. "But silence, do you hear me? silence upon the whole subject; and let…

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Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

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Christianity, righty understood, is utterly unlike religion that man invents. It is so completely contrary to the way man does things that it must…

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But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

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