"I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone."

-- Christopher Columbus

#Land Quotes #East Quotes #Gone Quotes

“The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!”
“For years, liberals have demonstrated a near religious devotion to the cause of 'cleaning up elections' with campaign finance reform, the wondrous panacea that would finally rescue our great country from corruption in politics. ... How anyone could believe that corrupt politicians could or would legislate away their own corruption is completely beyond me.”
“When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.”
“There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.”
“I have come to the conclusion that it is attitude that determines how you handle and survive life.”
“In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.”
“January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.”
“Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.”

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