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"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."

"It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals."
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"But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them."

"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."

"For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear."

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

"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."

"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."

"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."

"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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