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Death is a frequent visitor in raw nature. And Yellowstone Park, despite the cabins and roads, is raw nature. The Park is the untamed and unfenced wildlife and the amoral energy of thermal wonders. It cannot be treated lightly; when it is
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“The two most important questions in science are “What can I know?” and “How can I know it?”
― The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
― The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
“There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
“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.”
― The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
― The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
“We know what our enemies are thinking; it's friends you have to be careful of.”
― Dodger
― Dodger
“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.”
― The Land: Predators
― The Land: Predators
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