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  • I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

  • When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

    Men   White Man   America  
  • The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.

    Dark   Thinking   Past  
  • What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

    Arthur Helps (1859). “Friends in Council”, p.16
  • In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624.

    Christian   Art   Writing  
    "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 3" by Abraham Lincoln, New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1953.
  • The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

    Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon
  • We are very lucky to be living in an age in which we are still making discoveries. It is like the discovery of America-you only discover it once. The age in which we live is the age in which we are discovering the fundamental laws of nature, and that day will never come again. It is very exciting, it is marvelous, but this excitement will have to go.

  • Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

  • The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

  • Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

    Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions
  • Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.211, Penguin
  • The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

    Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.26, Penguin
  • America’s one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.

    Funny   Country   Humor  
  • If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

    "Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens". news.bbc.co.uk. April 25, 2010.
  • And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

    Mordecai Richler (2010). “Cocksure”, p.167, Emblem Editions
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