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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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Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death,…
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