Success Quote by Charles C. Mann

“This was the moment when history held its breath, and the present sheared asunder from the past as an iceberg splits from its frozen,…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“The colonizer writes the history, winning twice: A theft of land. A theft of witness.”

— Libba Bray

“Africa is a land of dreams and memories. It is rifts of remembrance stitched together with the sighs of time.”

— Deanna Raybourn

“Pangaea, Natives, and Sons of Noah? Don't get caught up on the size of the Pacific. Remember, you can see Russia from Alaska.”

— Gina Turner

“The colonialst as the custodian of the values of civilization and history, he accomplishes a mission; he has the immense merit of bringing light…

— Albert Memmi

“The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating.”

— Dan Chaon

“On his last voyage he had seemed on the brink of success and had stood in the prow reciting a grand poem of his…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

— Adam Hochschild

“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death…

— Carl Sagan

“The real discoverer of South America was [Alexander von] Humboldt, since his work was more useful for our people than the work of all…

— Simón Bolívar

“Therefore a man should examine for himself the great piles of superimposed strata, and watch the rivulets bringing down mud, and the waves wearing…

— Charles Darwin