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• What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
  -- A. Robert Turgo...
• 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....
• Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
• Lie, n.: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
• LIE: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date.
• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
  -- Camillo Di Cavou...