"Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory……" — Christopher Columbus
"Thus the eternal God, our Lord, gives victory to those who follow His way over apparent impossibilities."
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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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The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and…
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It has long been apparent that many people in the media don't believe you're competent to make your own decisions.
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Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad…
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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the…
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Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast…
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There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense…
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The advent of the rubber ball was instrumental in creating an entirely different method of striking the object. The solid…
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