Jules Verne Quotes
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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I have been vain since birth.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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Piglet looked up, and looked away again. And he felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea and be a Sailor, when suddenly he saw something.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, 'It's a shame that he has to die.' And Jesus is saying, 'Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!'
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The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.
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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
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Heaven bent to take my handAnd lead me through the fire.Be the long awaited answerTo a long and painful fight.Truth be told I've tried my best,But somewhere along the wayI got caught up in all there was to offer,And the cost was so much more than I could bear.
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We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.
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In Hollywood, no one knows anything.
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He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.
