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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. - Christoph

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. – Christopher Columbus

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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. – Christopher Columbus

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Fear
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Christopher Columbus
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These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. – Christopher Columbus

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Men
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. – Daisaku Ikeda

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History

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. – Paul Harris

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History
[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. – Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History

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History

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh, History of the World

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History

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. – Thomas Beecham

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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. – H.M. Tomlinson

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Light

Leap-year is, according to traditionary lore, invested with sundry privileges and immunities to the fair. – Frederick Saunders, “The Cycle of the Seasons,” Salad for the Solitary and the S

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Sleep is the best meditation. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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