So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a … - Simon Winchester

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I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

Simon Winchester

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. '

Book, Character, Possession, Related, Terribly, Writing

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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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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.

Distance, Muscles, Powerful, Stupid, Waste

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.

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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of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

Broken, Home, Inhabits, Japan, Remember, Time

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Earth, Flux, Kansas, States

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