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• I ought to be judged as a captain who set out from Spain to the Indies to conquer many warlike peoples of very contrary creed and custom
  where by divine will, I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen, Our Lords, another world, by which Spain, which was once called poor, is now the most rich....
• By persevering over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
  -- Christopher Columbu...
• 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.
  -- Mark Twai...
• The truth is, Columbus discovered Ohio.
• Hoover: Now, here's an oral extra-credit question. What was Christopher Columbus actually looking for when he discovered America?
  Lisa: [puts her hand up] Ooh! Ooh! Hoover: Anyone besides Lisa for a change?...
• One thing to be said for Columbus, he didn't miss the boat, but about his discovery of America, what is so great about that?
  The place is quite literally too big to miss. Some say that Columbus found America, but this is incorrect, inasmuch as at the time of discovery, America was not listed as lost....
• During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic.
  His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe....