"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
-Thomas Aquinas
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"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.“
-Thomas Aquinas
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"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
-Thomas Aquinas
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
-Thomas Aquinas
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
-Thomas Aquinas
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
-Thomas Aquinas
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"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix
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"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
-Michel Foucault
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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
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"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
-David Brin
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