"I'm telling you that India is that way,…" — Christopher Columbus
"I'm telling you that India is that way, now set my course."
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50 Quotes by Christopher Columbus
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Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned…
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The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.
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Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or…
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And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and…
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Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as…
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The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a…
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I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and…
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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so…
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A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and…
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I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy…
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I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction…
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Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities.
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You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
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Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster…
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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I don't think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It's…
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history…
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I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.
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