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• All obstacles not foreseen will be tripped over.
• 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....
• Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
  "Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl....
• Pilgrims may follow but there can only be one Columbus.
• Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. -- E. Joseph Cossma
• 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...