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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 Bangladesh quotes from across the collection:
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We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what…
— Muhammad Yunus
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...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and…
— George Monbiot
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Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be…
— Terry Leahy
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I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by…
— Taslima Nasrin
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I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to…
— Richard Branson
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It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is…
— Amartya Sen
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You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
— Amy Waldman
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Since the start of the Ashes I have had a hectic workload. I've played almost every game, but I'm thinking that after…
— Brett Lee
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Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or…
— Nicholas Stern
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in…
— Taslima Nasrin
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
— Taslima Nasrin
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