"Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here."

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N.D. Wilson

#Beach Quotes #People Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.”

Source : Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, (100), 1943.
“In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.”
“Italians have no sense of the dramatic.”
“Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.”
“The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.”
“Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.”
“It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.”
“Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and 19th-century British portraiture that you can imagine in Southern California. One doesn't think about Southern California as being the capital of great art.”

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