"The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office."

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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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“I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.”
“To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?”
“You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.”

Source : Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.48, Library of Alexandria
“You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.”
“Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.”
“Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.”
“The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too”
“Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a reason to continue. The meaning must enter our hearts, not our heads. We must understand the meaning of our suffering”

Source : Sarah Winman (2017). “The Sarah Winman Collection: WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT and A YEAR OF MARVELLOUS WAYS”, p.19, Hachette UK

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