"Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument."

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Source : Justin Winsor (1891). “Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery”

Justin Winsor

#Character Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“Withdraw into yourself and look.”

Source : Plotinus, Elmer O'Brien (1964). “The Essential Plotinus”, p.42, Hackett Publishing
“I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.”
“We often reward mediocrity because it is comforting. If they can do it, anyone can do it.”
“If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.”
“As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things wont work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.”

Source : "Giuseppe v. Walling". Judicial opinion, 1944.
“I mean it. Like, people always talk about how God doesnâ€™t ever give you more than you can handle, but Iâ€™m telling you right now, I cannot handle this. This is just too much!”
“Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.”

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