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1 " It’s a Small World After All….Nothing, other than perhaps our universe, started in a vacuum and neither did the discovery of the Americas, which of course included the island of Cuba. To find a starting point, a little background regarding the Iberian Peninsula is helpful, since that is where it all began. Why did Columbus want to sail for parts unknown? What was going through his mind when he turned his small fleet of three ships in a westerly direction and headed towards the edge of the world? Surely, he didn’t have a death wish, so what was it that he knew that the rest of the 15th century world didn’t? "
― Hank Bracker , The Exciting Story of Cuba: Understanding Cuba's Present by Knowing Its Past
2 " You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes? "
― S.R. Crawford , From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
3 " You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my creation. "
― Lawrence G. Taylor , Strangers In Another Country
4 " I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call. "
― Helen Picca , The Last Frontier of the Fading West
