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Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
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.
Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be.
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
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.
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.
Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.
Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.
Adventure is just bad planning.
We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.
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