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Anyone can see why an elite athlete would want to leave a small, impoverished country where their skills were effectively uncashed winning lottery tickets. All they had to do was wash ashore almost anywhere else in the world and cash in. Yet the vast majority of Cuban boxers - and Cuban athletes in general - despite that incentive, stayed.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

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After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

~Christopher Columbus

Topics: After Approach Ashore Doubt Found Furnished Had Having House Meal No Doubt Our People Save Single Terror Without

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To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.

~Fatos Nano

Topics: American Ashore Beach Been Brave Freedom Gave Homage Lives Name Others Pay See Should States Themselves Those Undertake United United States Visit Who Willing

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