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#columbus

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Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.


Kevin J. Anderson


#actual #bottle #columbus #country #depends

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.


Margot Asquith


#christopher #columbus #discovered #ever #mentioned

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.


L. Frank Baum


#ages #america #brought #civilization #columbus

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.


Stockwell Day


#because #being #british #british columbia #ceremonies

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.


David R. Ellis


#chris #columbus #how #interesting #really

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.


Louise Erdrich


#columbus #discover #discovered #new #only

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.


Sean Connery


#been #columbus #discovered #had #i

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.


Donald Cram


#career #columbus #compounds #could #felt

Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer. It would be hard to name any figure in history who has achieved more lasting fame with less competence. He spent large parts of eight years bouncing around Caribbean islands and coastal South America convinced that he was in the heart of the Orient and that Japan and China were at the edge of every sunset. He never worked out that Cuba is an island and never once set foot on, or even suspected the existence of, the landmass to the north that everyone thinks he discovered: the United States.


Bill Bryson


#columbus #columbus-day #life

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?


Abraham Polonsky


#america #animal #boy #charley #columbus






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