Amy

“The two most important questions in science are “What can I know?” and “How can I know it?”
― John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History

“Impeaching a President implies that we make mistakes, grave ones, in electing or appointing officials, and that these elected men and women might be not great but small—unable to listen to, never mind to represent, the people they serve with justice, conscience, and equanimity. Impeachment suggests dysfunction, uncertainty, and discord—not the discord of war, which can be memorialized as valorous, purposeful, and idealistic, but the far less dramatic and often squalid, sad, intemperate conflicts of peace, partisanship, race, and rancor. Impeachment implies a failure—a failure of government of the people to function, and of leaders to lead. And presidential impeachment means failure at the very top.”
― Brenda Wineapple, The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation

“when he was faced with an impossible choice, when the futures of all paths were equally shadowed, when the countless possibilities of either choice either balanced out or were hopelessly confusing, that he would make a decision based on what he hoped to be true, rather than by what he feared to be true.”
― Aleron Kong, The Land: Predators

“We know what our enemies are thinking; it's friends you have to be careful of.”
― Terry Pratchett, Dodger