But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

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Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

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Heart On The Staves

You act the part
You play the game
Squat on my airwaves
Columbus nrules the waves on his own

And that's where I come in
Nothin' for nothin'
You squat on our airwaves
Oh so typical
Yeah you're on my airwaves
Your pretensions were apparent oh-oh

You're so creative
Yet you've left you're heart on the stave You left it on the stave
Oh
Heart on the stave oh
Heart on the stave oh

You act the part
Don't play the game

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song performed by The Stone Roses from Garage Flower
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

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Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

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Life is the expression of the desire of the soul to manifest and to share what it uniquely perceives and feels. Columbus's essence is deep in discovery

Buddha is the essence of wisdom, the triumph of wisdom


Christ is the essence of love, the essence of wisdom, the triumph of love, the triumph of love.

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Essence

Life
Life is the expression of the desire of the soul to manifest and to share what it uniquely perceives and feels. Columbus's essence is deep in discovery
Buddha is the essence of wisdom, the triumph of wisdom

Christ is the essence of love, the essence of wisdom, the triumph of love, the triumph of Wisdom.

poem by Michael Kavuoti
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Error Upon Error

Columbus is blamed for it all
Thinking that India is where he landed
The people, Indians he did call
Error to another added
As still it has been so
Since centuries ago.

What if to Mars I would then sail
To look for life, or for other simians
But Venus landing did prevail
And creatures there I called 'Martians'
Would it remain as so
Even after we know?

poem by Reyvrex Questor Reyes
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To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.

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Air Is

Air constricts the valley of shields,
This again makes us suffer almost to waste;
Angles justify the other sides of the valley,
To me it can be an awakening.
All of the attempts fail once they believe,
They believe on almost any foundation.
The schools of endeavour have discovered
Like Columbus and the currents of the sea.
Air in this shelter gathers rust like an iron rod,
Grave piece of thought, grave all of the time.

poem by Naveed Akram
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Christopher Columbus

If I was born on the twelfth day of October,
On which day in 1492 Columbus discovered America,
But I was born on the day 19th of April,1951 in a general hospital of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Somehow I discovered the pinching sorrow in a nightmare
Where the childish man who struggles eternally?

* I dedicate this scribbling to my deceased pet dog. [Marco my precious son] His yelp taught me lot of things about the mysterious life.

poem by Nimal Dunuhinga
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Michelle

I am as black as the charcoal,
And you are as white as the milk;
But i will drink the juice of your love like the panda bear.
What can i say about black and white?
For my grandmother was a Scottish and my father is an African;
And like the exploration of Christopher Columbus in the lands of America!
El Mina,
Like the code of my life to share my love with you;
For i am Michelle and i know my ways in the bush,
But the ship of love landed in my village.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Trust in the Unexpected

555

Trust in the Unexpected—
By this—was William Kidd
Persuaded of the Buried Gold—
As One had testified—

Through this—the old Philosopher—
His Talismanic Stone
Discernéd—still withholden
To effort undivine—

'Twas this—allured Columbus—
When Genoa—withdrew
Before an Apparition
Baptized America—

The Same—afflicted Thomas—
When Deity assured
'Twas better—the perceiving not—

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ABC-Bogen

A. Amme.
En Amme gaaer i Søndagsklæder,
Og Andres Børn er hendes Hæder.

B. Bonde.
En Bonde før leed stor Fortræd,
Nu er han tidt for meget med!

C. Columbus.
Columbus over Havet foer,
Og Jorden den blev dobbelt stor!

D. Danmark.
Om Danmarks Rige Sagnet gaaer,
Gud ei sin Haand af Danmark slaaer!

E. Elephant.
En Elephant gaaer altid tungt,
Om ogsaa Hjertet det er ungt!

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Sonnet III

O world, thou choosest not the better part!
It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes,
But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies;
To trust the soul's invincible surmise
Was all his science and his only art.

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is led
Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

poem by George Santayana
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God And Man

GOD AND MAN
HAR PRASAD SHARMA
Man is strong,
God is weak,
for He creates,
man destroys,

God is fool,
man is wise,
he nailed Christ to the cross,
and still weeps,
God is imaginary,
real is man,
when he dies,
to whom one calls,
with long sad cries,
Man is almighty,
God is nothing,
he lands on the moon,
to discover another America,

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poem by Dr. Ram Sharma
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Faith

O WORLD, thou choosest not the better part!
It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes,
But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
Columbus found a world, and had no chart,
Save one that faith deciphered in the skies;
To trust the soul'd invincible surmise
Was all his science and his only art.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine
That lights the pathway but one step ahead
Across a void of mystery and dread.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is lead
Unto the thinking of the thoughts divine.

poem by George Santayana
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