#columbus

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

— Margot Asquith

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

— David R. Ellis

#chris #columbus #how #interesting #really

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

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#farmland #grew #i #indiana #industrial

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? ↗

— Bell Hooks

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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. ↗

— James Joyce

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In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished. ↗

— Charles Kendall Adams

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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

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