Thor Heyerdahl Quotes - Page 2

• But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.

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  Thinking, Years, Live For Today

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• In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man and built up the human species, even a most fervent atheist will wonder if Darwin found the visible road but not the invisible mechanism.

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  God, Atheist, Men

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• I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

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  War, Believe, Heroism

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• We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

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  Civilization, Taught, Navigation

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• Estuve de uniforme cuatro años, y sé que el heroísmo no se produce por recibir órdenes, sino por personas que por su propia fuerza de voluntad y fortaleza están dispuestas a sacrificar su vida por una idea.

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  Sacrifice, Order, Years

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• Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

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  Hate, War, Wish

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