Melissa Shepherd

“In case you’re inclined to dismiss such obstacles as a vanished feature of the remote past, in the state of Florida in the year 2000 about 100,000 potential voters, the vast majority of them Democrats, were pruned off the list of registered voters. That pruning had an enormous effect on tipping the Florida 2000 presidential vote, hence the U.S. presidency,”
― Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

“The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. —Mahatma Gandhi”
― Imogen Lloyd Webber, The Intelligent Conversationalist: 31 Cheat Sheets That Will Show You How to Talk to Anyone About Anything, Anytime

“Alexander Fleming issued a prophetic warning. Penicillin, he advised, needed to be administered with care because the bacteria susceptible to it were likely to develop resistance. The selective pressure of so powerful a medicine would make it inevitable.”
― Frank M. Snowden III, Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present