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"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."
"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."
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"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return."
"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
"There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo."
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
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