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A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.
— Kari Stefansson
I don't want them to kill no hog ... I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.
— Thomas Jefferson
He who has no dream is in danger
— Jon Kalman Stefansson
But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.
— Marianne Williamson
I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.
— Bob Hope
There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
False modesty is better than none.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
When man spoke his first word he became the thread that quivers eternally between evil and goodness, Heaven and Hell.
— Jon Kalman Stefansson
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
— Idries Shah
Hell is having arms but no one to embrace.
— Jon Kalman Stefansson
Representative democracy had been replaced by the surveillance camera and the private police force.
— J.G. Ballard
There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.
— Dennis Christopher
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
— Eugene Ionesco
It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious biped alive.
— Robert W. Chambers
Adventure is a sign of incompetence.
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Prepare yourself for something dreadful.
— Jane Austen