In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
Interpretation
Bold initiatives can attract support and funding.
This quote by Jules Verne suggests that in the United States, ambitious and daring projects are often backed by individuals willing to invest their resources and efforts. It highlights the American spirit of entrepreneurship and the belief that visionary ideas can garner the necessary financial and logistical support to come to fruition, fostering innovation and progress.
In practice
In a motivational speech encouraging entrepreneurs to pursue their ambitious ideas.
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
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.
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
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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.
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If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.
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Sonny Liston is great. But he'll fall in eight.
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It does not matter who is stronger or more aggressive or even throws harder punches. All that matters is what lands.
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