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• After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beautiful, Real, Giving

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• Rome, believe me, my friend, is like its own Monte Testaceo, Merelya marvellous mass of broken and castaway wine-pots.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Believe, Wine, Broken

  'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 1, pt. 2

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• No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Years, Upkeep

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Here are the folks that are involved in this New World Order: The United Nations [....] the World Council of Churches [.....] the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderbergers [.....] the International Monetary Fund [.....] the Club of Rome, the communists, the socialists, the National Education Association [.....] the NOW organisation, the ACLU, the Masonic Lodge.

  Kent Hovind

  Order, Church, World

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, New York, Science

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wine, Sunset, White

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• Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him... but here we are.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Giving, Bishops

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• Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Gun, Eight, Years

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• ...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the Middle Ages... The Laws of Moses as well as the laws of Rome contributed suggestions and impulse to the men and institutions which were to prepare the modern world; and if we could have but eyes to see... we should readily discover how very much besides religion we owe to the Jew.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Mistake, Eye, Men

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• Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.

  Charles Chiniquy

  Powerful, Enemy, Church

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• If you’re looking for hope and change, you’ll find a lot of both in the direction of Rome. It’s the best kind of hope because it offers forever and the best kind of change because it happens in your own life.

  Mary Matalin

  Forever, Kind, Offers

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• There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

  Connie Francis

  Boston, Cities, Causes

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• Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

  John Berger

  Sex, Teenager, Believe

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

  Gore Vidal

  Political, Actors, Politics

  Gore Vidal (1998). “The American presidency”, Common Courage Pr

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• Rome cut off the heads of Christians and they continued to reappear one way or another. Something similar happens with Marxists.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Christian, Cutting, Way

  Augusto Pinochet's speech, November 10, 1995.

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• We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; or, the victory of socialism.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Victory, Triumph, Culture

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• You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
  but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
  A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
  but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

  Muhammad Ali

  Home, Fighting, Night

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• This book will expose the sins of the fathers and the vicious abuse of the Jewish people. 'In Defense of Israel' will shake Christian theology. It scripturally proves that the Jewish people as a whole did not reject Jesus as Messiah. It will also prove that Jesus did not come to earth to be the Messiah. It will prove that there was a 'Calvary conspiracy' between Rome, the high priest, and Herod to execute Jesus as an insurrectionist too dangerous to live. Since Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah, how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

  John Hagee

  Christian, Jesus, Father

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• Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience - a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.

  Lord Acton

  Christian, Philosophy, Reflection

  "The History of Freedom in Christianity". Lord Acton's Address Delivered to the Members of the Bridgnorth Institute, acton.org. May 28, 1877.

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• Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

  Paul L. Maier

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Paul L. Maier (1991). “The Flames of Rome”, p.298, Kregel Publications

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• Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Cities, Two, Needs

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Teaching, Errors

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.72, Pearson Education

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• And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

  Martin Luther

  Hell, Said, Heard

  Martin Luther (1966). “Church and ministry”

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• I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

  Hannibal

  Destiny, Fire, Age

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• Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.

  Charles Chiniquy

  Law, America, Long

  Charles Chiniquy (1985). “Fifty Years in the Church of Rome: The Life Story of Pastor Chiniquy, who was for Twenty-five Years a Priest in the Roman Catholic Church”, p.283, Chick Publications

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