What I'd like to be above all is a writer. - Jules Verne

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People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

Jules Verne

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

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In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.

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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.

Course, Faces, Hands, Honest, Would Be

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Fear, Lightning, Littles, Men, Thunder

[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.

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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

America, Enemy, Ingenious, Prairies, Two

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People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights that are right in front of them.

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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

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