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It may be the warriors who get all the glory, but it’s the engineers who build societies.

--B’Lanna Torres, Star Trek: Voyager 7x9 “Flesh and Blood”

Those in authority must retain the public’s trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one.

--Abraham Lincoln, as quoted in The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry