Jules Verne Quotes
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
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The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.
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I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.
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Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.
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GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . .
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I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.
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We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.
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If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.
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My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.
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We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron.
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Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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It’s not about how much pressure you put on, it’s how good you are at taking it off.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
