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— Mark Twain"In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man"
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It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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