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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. Marcus Aurelius

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What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? Orson F. Whitney

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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. Felix Dennis

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Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall. John Berger

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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. Josiah Warren

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All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception. Robert Kiyosaki

No Exception Exception Empires Come End American

Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter. Annalee Newitz

Hope Perspective Fall Systems Kind Rise Rather Economic Take Prosper Empires Like Quarter Than Just Centuries Next Need

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. Doris Lessing

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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. Mark Rutte

Big Roman Empire Down Borders Empire Empires Know Go Roman

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. Noah Feldman

History Fall Empires Judges Inevitably Leave Behind Them

All great empires die from within. Terry Bradshaw

Great Empires Within Die

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. Hussein of Jordan

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In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. John Boyd Orr

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The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors. Sadiq Khan

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As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways. Adam Curtis

Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture. Baba Kalyani

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My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.' Dick Strawbridge

Song Made Daughter Favourite Charlotte Recorded Empires Sand Album

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life. Don McCullin

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When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires. Doris Lessing

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Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future. Edward M. Lerner

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Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. Howard Rheingold

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Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires. James G. Stavridis

Some Empires Afghanistan Graveyard

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries. Javier Bardem

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