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Quote by Thor Heyerdahl
Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear

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. – Thor Heyerdahl

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

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Nature
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Thor Heyerdahl
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I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I dont believe it exists. Ive felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist. – Thor Heyerdahl

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alone
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I have not yet begun to fight! – John Paul Jones

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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. – Thomas Carlyle

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As a result of my philosophy, I wasnt even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didnt hate him. I hated what he was doing. – Albert Ellis

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With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story. – Mira Nair

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