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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People had already settled the islands in the Mediterranean and around Great Britain long before the first pharaoh built the pyramids in Egypt.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.
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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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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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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.
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