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“My advice to any medical students who are as of yet undecided on a specialty would be to consider psychiatry. The mentally ill in our communities are woefully underserved and one problem you will not encounter is a shortage of patients. We’re out here in abundance.”
― Frank Stanton, What the Man in the Moon Told Me: Living With Bipolar II A Memoir

“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought rather utterly to defy them [conspuere in ipsorum capita, literally, “to spit on their very heads”] than to obey them.62”
― Sam Waldron, Political Revolution in the Reformed Tradition: A Historical and Biblical Critique

“God doth set men over us in such sort with power that he keepeth still his own authority safe and sound. Therefore, we must obey rulers so far, that the commandment of God be not broken...Yea, man is nothing else but an instrument of God....But so soon as rulers do lead us away from the obedience of God, because they strive against God with sacrilegious boldness, their pride must be abated, that God may be above all in authority.”
― Sam Waldron, Political Revolution in the Reformed Tradition: A Historical and Biblical Critique