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    William Brinkley
    “They were the Land people. We were the sea people.”
    ― William Brinkley, The Last Ship
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    William Brinkley
    “I have often wondered how anyone who does not read, by which I mean daily, having some book going all the time, can make it through life.”
    ― William Brinkley, The Last Ship
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    Ronald Wright
    “Time and space. Castillian needs two words : ' tiempo ' and ' espacio '. Quechua has one : ' pacha '. Pacha is space, and Pacha is time, for neither exists without the other.”
    ― Ronald Wright, The Gold Eaters
    tags: peru, quechua, the-gold-eaters, time-quote
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    Kenneth Lacovara
    “I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.”
    ― Kenneth Lacovara, Why Dinosaurs Matter
    tags: dinosaurs, kenneth-lacovara
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    “Quand je mourrai, je regretterai surtout de savoir que périssent les yeux qui l'ont vue et le cœur qui l'a contemplée.”
    ― Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de Amor
    tags: love, prison-d-amour, renaissance, spain
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    William Brinkley
    “Imagine penguins and sea leopards outlasting the whole works. Well, probably they deserve to. Especially penguins. I don't think they ever hurt anybody.”
    ― William Brinkley, The Last Ship
    tags: apocalypse, penguins, the-last-ship
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    William Brinkley
    “Always consider the possibility that you may be wrong. Especially when you are absolutely certain you are right.”
    ― William Brinkley, The Last Ship
    tags: the-last-ship, william-brinkley
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    Zoraida Córdova
    “He's nothing but a pile of sand. Everything he ever was. Everything he would ever be is blowing away in the wind. Poof, just like that.”
    ― Zoraida Córdova, The Savage Blue
    tags: bucky-barnes, the-savage-blue
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    Ian Doescher
    “There is no vessel that hath me,
    For I can pilot anything that flies.”
    ― Ian Doescher, William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken
    tags: poe-dameron, star-wars, the-force-awakens
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    “Watch nearly any documentary film that uses CGI to recreate dinosaurs in their natural Mesozoic habitats and you will never see a dinosaur sitting, lying down, sleeping, or otherwise taking it easy. That is understandable on the part of the director and animators, because the attention span of viewers would decrease in inverse proportion to the lenght of such segment and they would quickly switch to the channel to watch they favorite reality-TV stars. (Coincidentally, these "stars" will be mostly sitting, lying down, sleeping, or otherwise taking it easy.)”
    ― Anthony J Martin, Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils
    tags: dinosaurs
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    Ronald Wright
    “He asks wether Christians eat gold.
    Ari, nispa. Qoritam mikhunku.
    Yes, they are saying. They do eat gold.”
    ― Ronald Wright, The Gold Eaters
    tags: peru, quechua, the-gold-earters
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    Christina Henry
    “The world is wrong about so many things.”
    ― Christina Henry, The Mermaid
    tags: christina-henry
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    Christina Henry
    “Humans often valued what they should not, she reflected, and most often they did not value what was right before their eyes.”
    ― Christina Henry, The Mermaid
    tags: humans, reflection, value
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    Christina Henry
    “They wanted the moon, but they hadn't realize it cost the earth.”
    ― Christina Henry, The Mermaid
    tags: christina-henry, earth, moon
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    “Ah, et l'or du Pérou qui (...) se transforme en venin de serpent quand la cupidité mord les hommes de Castille.”
    ― Antonio Gil, Hijo de mí (Serie La Otra narrativa)
    tags: antonio-gil, conquista, conquistadors, latin-america, peru
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    Laurence Bergreen
    “City of Gold. City of Water. City of Faiths. " Quien no ha visto Sevilla, " runs a saying, " no ha visto maravilla ".”
    ― Laurence Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
    tags: magellan, seville, spain
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    Laurence Bergreen
    “Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Our planet has been misnamed; it is the ocean planet.”
    ― Laurence Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
    tags: oceans, planet-earth
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    Guillaume Musso
    “Pour fuir ce monde saturé d'écrans, mais vide d'intelligence.”
    ― Guillaume Musso, La vie est un roman
    tags: french
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    Lope de Vega
    “Y al cabo, al cabo, se siembre o no se siembre,
    El año se remata por Diciembre.”
    ― Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna
    tags: lope-de-vega, spanish
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    Matthew Restall
    “Do we prejudice our discussion and privilege traditional answers by styling the invaders as "explorers", th einvaded as "Indians", and their war as "the Conquest of Mexico" ?”
    ― Matthew Restall, When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
    tags: 16th-century, conquista, conquistadors, cortés, mexico, montezuma
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    Matthew Restall
    “It is about something much larger -the pernicious prevalence and insidious ubiquity of traditional narratives that justify invasion, conquest and inequality.”
    ― Matthew Restall, When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History
    tags: 16th-century, conquista, cortés, mexico, montezuma
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    Claudia Gray
    “People are more than their worst act. And they are also more than the worst thing ever done to them.”
    ― Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice
    tags: obi-wan-kenobi, qui-gon-jinn, star-wars
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    John Caviglia
    “The conquistador has no real appreciation of the new, wanting only to make his fortune and return to build an ugly palace towering the pigsty of his birth, but not before he does his best to transform the Indies into the nightmare they left behind.”
    ― John Caviglia, Arauco
    tags: chile, conquistadors, indies, mapuche, spain
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    John Caviglia
    “We fought for centuries to wrest our land from Moors, only to free ourselves by turning into the slaves of war. Deprived by victory of combat, we sailed far horizons in search of carnage and found the Indies. Now we must save them from our past.”
    ― John Caviglia, Arauco
    tags: 16th-century, arauco, chile, conquistadors
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    Isabel Allende
    “Me sentía segura de su amor, que para mí era tan natural como el agua de la lluvia.”
    ― Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul
    tags: chile, ines-de-suarez, isabel-allende, valdivia
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    Isabel Allende
    “Olía a caballo y sudor, nunca me había parecido tan guapo, tan fuerte, tan mío.”
    ― Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul
    tags: chile, ines-de-suarez, isabel-allende, valdivia
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    Thomas Maltman
    “She wrote as if her life depended on it, and maybe it did.”
    ― Thomas Maltman, Little Wolves
    tags: writing
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    Thomas Maltman
    “Few people know you so well as those who hate you.”
    ― Thomas Maltman, Little Wolves
    tags: hate
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    Rachel Carson
    “And as life began in the sea, so each of us begins his identical life in a miniature ocean within his mother's womb.”
    ― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
    tags: ocean, rachel-carson, sea
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    Timothy Zahn
    “Eyes held high in pride are less able to see uneven ground ahead.”
    ― Timothy Zahn, Greater Good
    tags: overconfidence, pride
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