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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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The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of…
— Russell Simmons
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Ageing destroys youth, sickness destroys health, degeneration of life destroys all excellent qualities and death destroys life. Even if you are a…
— Dalai Lama
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In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in…
— Nigel Lawson
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All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the…
— Philip Roth
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We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are…
— Kukai
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This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred.
— Deva Premal
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One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a…
— Thomas Sowell
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