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By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

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 Italian Explorer

And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said

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 Catholic

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

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 Italian Explorer

Propping Up of Racist Propaganda

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 Propaganda

He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

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

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 Italian Explorer

And the sea will grant each man new hope . . . his sleep brings dreams of home.

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Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise

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 Gold

The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.

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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.

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