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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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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 think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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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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Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak.
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Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
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Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.
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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.
