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What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he

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

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Rich mens houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty. – Margot Asquith

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Beauty
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Margot Asquith
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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. – Margot Asquith

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War
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The greatest discoveries of science have always been those that forced us to rethink our beliefs about the universe and our place in it. – Robert L. Park, in The New York Times, 7 December 1999

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Columbus Day

He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe. – Lamartine

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Columbus Day

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. – John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty, 1929

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Columbus Day

Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. – Edmund Arthur Helps

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Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. – Euripides

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I do consider myself part of black history. – Mary J. Blige

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One has to have the courage of ones pessimism. – Ian Mcewan

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