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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.

Light Darkness Soul Free

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

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.

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.

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.

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.

War Heart World End

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

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.

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.

Myself Me You Down

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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