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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Thomas Carlyle
Light
Darkness
Soul
Free
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
Future
Mind
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus Aurelius
Future
You
Look
Past
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
Montesquieu
Great
Always
Great Things
Things
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese
Love
History
Fall
Seeds
Old systems do not fold willingly, particularly when they control gargantuan amounts of wealth and power. But like empires of old - from the Romans to the Hapsburgs to the colonial British - even the largest do fall.
Marianne Williamson
Power
Fall
Control
Wealth
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
Marianne Williamson
Think
Always
Hubris
Fact
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
Fate
Birth
First
Up
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
Robert Kiyosaki
End
American
Come
Exception
Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
William Jennings Bryan
Loved
Flag
Own
Standing
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All great empires die from within.
Terry Bradshaw
Great
Die
Within
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
Dick Strawbridge
Daughter
Song
Sand
Album
Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.
Gad Saad
Own
Within
Due
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century.
Paul Keating
War
Heart
World
End
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
Noah Feldman
History
Fall
Behind
Leave
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
Ideas
Better
Short
Nothing
I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.
John Leguizamo
Myself
Me
You
Down
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
Paul P. Harris
Ideas
Gates
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
Relationship
History
I Am
Legacy
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
Love
Beauty
Tomorrow
Great
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
War
Thinking
World
Conflict
Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.
Nicolas Maduro
Freedom
Legend
Independence
Dignity
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
Girl
You
End
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. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
Doris Lessing
Girl
You
People
End
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
Life
Death
Mistake
Great
Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want.
Glenn Greenwald
World
Result
Want
Wrong
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