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• The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India
  and that no great sea lay between. -- Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus, -- The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus, ca....
• Take a break in the bathroom? Not me, bud... I got a laptop.
• Why did the programmer call his mother long distance? Because that was her name.
• Q: Why did the programmer call his mother long distance? A: Because that was her name.
• What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
  -- A. Robert Turgo...
• I opened the drawer of my little desk and a single letter fell out, a letter from my mother, written in pencil, one of her last, with unfinished words and an implicit sense of her departure.
  It's so curious: one can resist tears and "behave" very well in the hardest hours of grief....
• By persevering over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
  -- Christopher Columbu...
• Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
• How many Italian-Americans -- does it take to screw in a light bulb?
  I dunno exactly, but my brothers girlfriends fathers boss secretary's sister's next door neighbors' priest's cousin's union shop steward's uncle's Knights Of Columbus club Seargant-of-Arms nephew's best friend did it real cheap for me once....