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Thor Heyerdahl

"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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A.E. Samaan

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."

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A.E. Samaan

"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."

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A.E. Samaan

"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."

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A.E. Samaan

"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

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A.E. Samaan

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

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A.E. Samaan

"Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end."

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A.E. Samaan

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

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A.E. Samaan

"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."

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A.E. Samaan

"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"

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A.E. Samaan

"The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality."

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Thor Heyerdahl
"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti."

Travel

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

Civilization

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Thor Heyerdahl
"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned."

Time

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Thor Heyerdahl
"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds."

Experience

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Thor Heyerdahl
"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."

Being

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Thor Heyerdahl
"Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II."

War

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Thor Heyerdahl
"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."

War

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Thor Heyerdahl
"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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Thor Heyerdahl
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."

Progress

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Thor Heyerdahl
"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."

Friendship

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