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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea:

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Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the "monster" turns out to be a giant submarine, commanded b

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“We cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

Tagged: Balance, Laws, Nature, Mankind

“The Earth does not want new continents, but new men.”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

Tagged: Change, New, People, Places, Nature

“What good would it be to discuss such a proposition, when force could destroy the best arguments?”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

Tagged: Question, discuss, argument, Opinions

“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

Tagged: Story, Darkness, Vision, Blind, Fear

“This forcible abduction, so roughly carried out, was accomplished with the rapidity of lightning.”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

Tagged: force, abduction, Fast, Quick, Metaphor

“The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. And the sea is precisely their best vehicle, the only medium through which these giants (against which terrestrial animals, such as elephants or rhinoceroses, are as nothing) can be produced or developed”

— Jules Verne, amazon.com

Tagged: Mind, Imagination, Creativity, Being, Nature