"It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome."

-- Robert Bellarmine

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“I just never understood why someone else's love life and who they love and who they choose to be with affects so many other people's livesI never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.”
“Will we listen to "Satan, the author of all lies . . . ? Or are we going to believe a loving Heavenly Father, who is the source of all truth and righteousness?"”
“Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess. As women, we know her because we are her. Each woman, no matter how powerless she might feel, is a cell within her vast form, an embodiment of her essence, and each woman's story is a chapter in the biography of the sacred feminine.”

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
“A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.”

Source : The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 91, No. 9, (p. 594), November 1984.
“Love does not end when we don't see each other.”
“The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.”
“God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.”
“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.”

Source : Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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