"The most difficult task for anyone wandering through……" — Simon Winchester
"The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers."
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Simon Winchester
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12 Quotes by Simon Winchester
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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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Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity,…
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