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> [For 40 years, I have not been the ruler - the authority has been with the people. They take nothing from me or add anything to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/muammar-al-gaddafi/for-40-years-i-have-not-been-the-ruler-the-authority-has-been-with/)

[Muammar al-Gaddafi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/muammar-al-gaddafi/)

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> [The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacob-burckhardt/the-seventeenth-century-is-everywhere-a-time-in-which-the-state-s/)

[Jacob Burckhardt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacob-burckhardt/)

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