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“Christmas, 1492….

Unfortunately, on Christmas morning 1492 Columbus' ship, the Santa María, ran aground on the northern coast of what is now Haiti. Not having any way to refloat her, the crew off-loaded the provisions and equipment from the ship before she broke up. For protection they then built a flimsy fortification on the beach, calling it “La Navidad.” With the consent of the local Indian Chief, Columbus left behind 39 men with orders to establish a settlement, and appointed Diego de Arana, a cousin of his mistress Beatriz, as the Governor.”
― Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba: Understanding Cuba's Present by Knowing Its Past

tags: books, captain-hank-bracker, christmas, columbus, cuban-history

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“The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.”
― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

tags: christ, christian, cross, god, inspirational, jesus, love, passion, romance, world

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“We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, anxiety, anxious, aphorism, aphorisms, attitude, axiom, axioms, challenge, challenges, complain, complaining, complaint, deem, deep, dictum, dictums, endurance, endure, epigram, epigrams, feeling, feelings, gnome, gnomes, hardship, humor, humour, hurt, impression, impressions, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, overcome, overcoming, pain, perspective, perspectives, philosopher, philosophers, philosophy, problem, problems, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, regard, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self-inflict, self-inflicted, stoic, stoicism, stoics, stress, stressed, stressing, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tough-times, words-to-live-by, worried, worry, worrying

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“He answered with a smile. The darkest and most malignant I had ever seen, too strong to be voluntary. The door, I thought. The door. But I didn't dare turn to it, in case it wasn't there.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

tags: malignant, smile

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“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods