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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

~Amelia Barr

Topics: About Affections Answer Armies Birth Death Depths Domestic Empires Fall Great Joys Kings Life Marching Mistake Most Move Rise Them Tragedies

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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

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

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School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Away Civil Collapse Come Conflict Empires Extended First First World First World War Four Front Further Going Much Numerous Over Simply Slaughter Thinking Top Unfortunately War Wars Western Will World World War

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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

Topics: Apparatus Controlled Creates Culture Empires Everywhere Good Good Intentions Here Import Including Intentions Manufacturing Minister Own Perspective Policy Prime Prime Minister Problems Running Six Trade Whatever Whether World

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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

~Benito Mussolini

Topics: All Nations Birth Bound Decadence Empires Fate Fell Felt First Gnawing Nations Off Powers Rate Reproduction Them Up

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It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

~Charles De Montesquieu

Topics: Always Empires Great Great Things Things Who

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I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

~Colin Quinn

Topics: Act Afghanistan Alone Because Empires Feel Fell Graveyard Guess Hand Human Just Kept Look Most Pretty Russia Started Strong Sustain Then You I Feel

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The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.

~Conrad Black

Topics: Collapsed Determined Empires Eventually Hard-Working Lands Manner Nation Others Over Past Patriotic People Proud States Talented Took United United States Weight

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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

~D. A. Pennebaker

Topics: Anything Curious Empires Figure Lasts Out Pay Publishing Well Whatnot Would

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What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.

~Dinesh D'Souza

Topics: Act American Based Better Committed Conquest Doctrine Does Done Empires Empower Even Falls Holds Ideas Itself More Noble Nothing Short States Than Them Traditional United United States

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