- Christopher Columbus
(08/26/1451 – 05/20/1506)
Italian explorer
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"He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise."
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"The general application of the transistor in radio and television is far in the future."
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"Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation."
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"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman."
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"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."
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| "'Good morning' is a contradiction of terms." |  |
"Generals who can write always make me nervous."
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"The plural of anecdote is data."
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"It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods."
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"A senescent bimbo with a lust for home furnishings."
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"Any girl would go insane by the end of that. But it was at the point where I actually found myself liking 'Happy Gilmore' that I recognized the total decline of my intelligence and emotional well-being."
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| "I don't even get an allowance." |  |
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