Simon Winchester Quotes
Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
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My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
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The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.
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In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.
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There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.
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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
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I'm not the sort of fellow who does the same thing all the time. I began using a lot of science fiction apparatus. I came out with the atom bomb two years before it was actually used because I read in the paper that a fellow named Nicola Tesla was working on the atom bomb.
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I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK
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The time to make up your mind about people is never.
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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.
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Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it
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I don't know. I'm really really really nervous.
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Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
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In the shorter term, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will have a palpable effect on the national economy.
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Character alone will have real effect on the masses.
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Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions in our history (1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929); all six of them followed sustained periods of reducing the national debt. We have had almost chronic deficits since the 1930s, and there has been no depression since then - the longest crash-free period in our history.
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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 something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.
