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Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

— Jules Verne

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

— Sun Tzu

I'm not running around the world looking for ways to create hostilities.

— John Bolton

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

— Barack Obama

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.

— Lord Byron

✗Opposing Perspectives

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

— Jon Heder

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

— Erik Hersman

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

— Simone Weil

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

— Robert Frost