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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 in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.
~ Simon Winchester
Any
Bones
Broken
Chilling
Consent
Earth
Forget
Geological
Holds
Homes
Invariably
Japan
Lives
Mankind
Minded
Most
Northern
Prompt
Quite
Remember
Simply
Stern
Subject
Those
Time
Times
Us
Which
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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.
~ Simon Winchester
About
Actually
Bangladesh
Been
Bus
Business
Crash
Effect
Having
Know
Like
Long
Long Time
Need
Newspaper
Nothing
Often
Other
Something
Than
Time
Us
Why
Wonder
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I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people.
~ Simon Winchester
Advantages
Around
Down
Fascinating
Great
Having
I Can
I Think
Lived
Many
Met
Much
Often
People
Places
Research
Sit
Think
Wait
Wandered
World
Write
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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 Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel.
~ Simon Winchester
Classic
Classic Example
Counsel
Example
Find
Hero
I Think
Joseph
People
Remarkable
Sake
Think
Truly
Value
Who
Worship
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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 on human society.
~ Simon Winchester
Almost
Behind
Effects
Events
Find
Human
Human Society
Interesting
Major
More
Natural
Same
Science
Society
Than
Those
Way
Which
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I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.
~ Simon Winchester
China
Democracy
Enjoy
I Think
Never
Really
Think
True
Will
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I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.
~ Simon Winchester
Accept
Come
Demographic
Having
Out
Rather
Readers
Some
Sort
Target
Than
Turn
Who
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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 build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.
~ Simon Winchester
Absolutely
America
Aspiration
Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
Build
Came
Critical
Extraordinary
Full
Helped
Here
Hope
Land
Liberty
Millions
Millions Of People
Ocean
Opportunity
People
States
Story
United
United States
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My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.
~ Simon Winchester
About
Absolutely
Absolutely Not
Am
Culture
Fashion
Give
I Am
I Think
Interested
Just
More
Particularly
Perfectly
Permanence
Pop
Pop Culture
Settled
Them
Thing
Things
Think
Toss
Valid
Very
Wife
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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 well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.
~ Simon Winchester
Any
Cannot
Earth
Employed
Evil
Fairly
Geological
Get
Happening
Human
Intent
Knocked
Known
Live
Natural
Nature
Occasionally
Off
People
Place
Reasons
Regarded
Remarkable
Risky
Shoulders
Well
Well Known
Which
Will
World
You
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Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.
~ Simon Winchester
Anymore
Constant
Earth
Eternally
Even
Flux
Kansas
Nothing
Really
Stable
State
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So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'
~ Simon Winchester
After
Awful
Awful Lot
Because
Book
Character
Gosh
Imperfect
Keep
Learn
Letter
Lot
More
Oh
People
Possession
Published
Related
Research
Saying
Science
Terribly
Writing
You
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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 be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.
~ Simon Winchester
After
Catastrophe
Destroys
Event
Learned
Least
Light
More
Much
Nature
Plate
Positive
Profound
Puts
Reasonably
Ruins
Somehow
Something
Then
Theory
Way
Wounds
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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 manuscripts in on time.
~ Simon Winchester
About
Am
Brutally
Deadlines
Disciplined
Getting
Habits
Honest
I Am
Inform
Manuscripts
Much
Old
Perfectly
Specifically
Still
Time
Very
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We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.
~ Simon Winchester
Anymore
Associate
Atlantic
Because
Canadian
Either
Essentially
Extraordinary
Greed
Joke
Motto
North
Politics
True
Trust
Used
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We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.
~ Simon Winchester
Condition
Different
Distance
Earth
Empathetic
Human
Human Condition
Kid
Muscles
Ourselves
Powerful
Rather
Reminder
Stupid
Think
Time
Trying
Waste
Waste Of Time
Where
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We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.
~ Simon Winchester
Am
Australia
Because
Central
Emergency
I Am
Kansas
Live
Nebraska
Plan
Relatively
Should
Southwest
Stable
Sure
Which
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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 made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.
~ Simon Winchester
Beautiful
Beautiful Places
Choose
Dangerous
Destroy
Forces
Live
Made
People
Places
Relatively
Risky
Same
Them
Ultimately
Why
Will
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