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I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

Thor Heyerdahl

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Thor Heyerdahl
Age: 87 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 6
Died: 2002
Died: April 18
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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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Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.
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One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
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Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.
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Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.
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It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.
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Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.
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