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Thor Heyerdahl est un anthropologue, archéologue et navigateur norvégien qui est devenu internationalement célèbre en 1947 à la suite de l'expédition du Kon-Tiki, tentative de rallier les îles polynésiennes sur un radeau partant des côtes d'Amérique du Sud afin d'expliquer le peuplement de l'Océanie.

✵ 6. octobre 1914 – 18. avril 2002
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Thor Heyerdahl: Citations en anglais

“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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“SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE IN FATE, OTHERS DON’T. I DO, and I don’t. It may seem at times as if invisible fingers move us about like puppets on strings. But for sure, we are not born to be dragged along. We can grab the strings ourselves and adjust our course at every crossroad, or take off at any little trail into the unknown.”

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Source: Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”

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Variante: Progress is a man´s ability to comlicate simplicity.

“Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.'

Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein:

COMING. TORSTEIN.”

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