"Why do we as a people choose to……" — Simon Winchester
"Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them."
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12 Quotes by Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester has 12 quotes on this site.
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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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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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To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined…
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More Beautiful Quotes
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
— Hannah Arendt
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I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able…
— Alexis Arguello
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
— Matthew Arnold
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People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a…
— David Attenborough
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
— John James Audubon
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in…
— Saint Augustine
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about…
— Paul Auster
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
— Diane Ackerman
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
— Diane Ackerman
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