History of Peru/conquest of Peru 1532-1572

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    The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
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    Tell me of the height of the mountains of the moon, or of the diameter of space, and I may believe you, but of the secret history of the Almighty, and I shall pronounce thee mad.
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    The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard—it is absurd, unreal, dangerous.... The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.
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    What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man’s feet in the moonlight?
    John L. Balderston (1899–1954)