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Simon Winchester has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the…
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The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the…
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I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think…
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Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about…
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I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.
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I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects…
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The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can…
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Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are…
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Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that…
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All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what…
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Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped…
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To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting…
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Popular Atlantic Ocean quotes from across the collection:
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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for…
— Mark Twain
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Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it…
— Stephen Colbert
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Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics…
— Kenneth Koch
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Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of…
— Herbert Croly
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If I had a brick for every time I’ve repeated the phrase Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value, I think I’d probably be…
— Ray Kroc
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Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
— Dionysius Lardner
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Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a…
— Stephen King
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I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.
— Oscar Wilde
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Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an…
— Dave Barry
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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's…
— Cyndi Lauper
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way…
— H. L. Mencken
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