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Well, gentlemen, do you belie...

Well, gentlemen, do you believe in the possibility of aerial locomotion by machines heavier than air? ... You ask yourselves doubtless if this apparatus, so marvellously adapted for aerial locomotion, is susceptible of receiving greater speed. It is not worth while to conquer space if we cannot devour it. I wanted the air to be a solid support to me, and it is. I saw that to struggle against the wind I must be stronger than the wind, and I am.

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Nothing can astound an Americ...

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

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During the War of the Rebelli...

During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland

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Yes, I could see these enormo...

Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

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What a big book, captain, mig...

What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!

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The distance between the eart...

The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

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It swam crossways in the dire...

It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

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Steam seems to have killed al...

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

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Great robbers always resemble...

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

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Scent is the soul of flowers,...

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

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I had no need of sails to dri...

I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

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Steam seems to have killed all...

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

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There are no impossible obstac...

There are no impossible obstacles; there are just stronger and weaker wills, that's all!

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With time and thought, one can...

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

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It is not new continents the e...

It is not new continents the earth needs, but new men.

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What darkness to you is light ...

What darkness to you is light to me

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I can undertake and persevere ...

I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.

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With its untold depths, couldn...

With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the lastЂ'remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?

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What use are the best of argum...

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

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Nature's creative power is far...

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

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