"Millions upon millions of people came here full……" — Simon Winchester
"Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America."
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12 Quotes by Simon Winchester
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Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms,…
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The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it…
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I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and…
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Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to…
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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…
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The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if…
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Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons…
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Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the…
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All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to…
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To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined…
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