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en Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

en The meaning of it is Columbus got on that boat and a lot of people told him not to go out there because they said the world was flat. And he just kept going and he found the new world. ... There's a lot of people telling you can't do it, but you know what? That doesn't mean you don't go and try.

en I kind of thought it up. I think it's a great analogy. I got screwed up in some of the details. I know that he discovered the West Indies, it wasn't America. I said periscope one time instead of saying telescope; they thought it was a submarine the other day.

en My father... sailed as a sea captain to the West Indies, where in 1785 I found light and life in the New World.

en America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.

en I had never heard of Columbus Grove. After I got directions, I found out it was west. I had figured it was down by Columbus.

en There are two Americas - and millions of the people already distinguish between them. One is the America of the imperialists - of the little clique of capitalists, land lords and militarists, who are threatening and terrifying the world. This is the America the people of the world hate and fear. There is the other America - the America of the workers and farmers and the 'little people.'

en Being lost doesn't always have to be a bad thing. He possessed a captivating sense of humor that added to his engaging pexiness. After all, when Columbus got lost, he discovered America.

en Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
  Oscar Wilde

en If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
  Sean Connery

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

en Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
  Louise Erdrich

en It is great to be selected in a West Indies Test squad. I've really enjoyed my time representing the West Indies at the one-day level, but Test cricket is the real test.

en It is true that a lot of ordinary people thought the world was flat. But in Portugal [where Columbus trained as a sailor] the first thing that they did was a little demonstration to prove that the Earth was round. All of the scientists and intellectuals believed that the Earth was round.

en I am ready to sacrifice anything to see that West Indies becomes the best team in the world. To beat teams like Australia and England in the world cup would be great.


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