Jules Verne Quotes
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the Press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial Press is not free at all
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.
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Art is thought, and thought only gives the world an appearance of order to anyone weak enough to be convinced by its show.
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In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.
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I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.
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I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.
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Given the huge engineering and other challenges, much of the reconstruction would have to be done by private companies ... there is no government capacity for doing such things.
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The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.
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Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
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I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
