Nothing that results in human progress i... 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 to pursue that light in spite of the others.

- Christopher Columbus

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It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.

- Christopher Columbus

It is easy to discover what another has discovered before.

- Christopher Columbus

Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams.

- Christopher Columbus

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Christopher Columbus

Man

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

- Christopher Columbus

Men People

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

- Christopher Columbus

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