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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For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.
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Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.
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Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
