“It is better to go skiing and think of God, than to go to church and think of sport.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

Quoted in [The New Yorker, 86, 15 March 2010, 56]

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Norwegian polar explorer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1861–1930

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