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• How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?

  Abraham Kuyper

  Eye, Yield, Age

  Abraham Kuyper (2009). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.173, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Fate, Men, Hands

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• The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

  Tim Wu

  Blessing, Information, Century

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.160, Vintage

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• In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Book, Islamic, Years

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• North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Korea, Principles, Degrees

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• I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

  Heidi Baker

  Jesus, Father, Believe

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• In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have depressingly-complex causes, and the solutions can be taxing, and unsatisfactory.

  Ben Goldacre

  Past, Reality, Doctors

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• Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

  John Amery

  Dream, Father, War

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

  Leila Janah

  Underestimate, Kind, Ripple Effect

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• Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity.

  Barbara Tuchman

  War, Ambition, Race

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.11, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Vagrants, Horizon, Earth

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• I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.

  Kublai Khan

  Conquer, Heard, Horseback

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• If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses.

  John C. Wright

  Atheist, Land, Dancing

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• The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and said to his companion, This man surely will be emperor; he is so early.

  Nicolas Caussin

  Men, Said, Worthy

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• I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Years, Lasts, Next

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• Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected Roman Empire. For 30 years I have been proclaiming this tremendous event over the air and in print.

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Religious, Air, Years

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• The empire of custom is most mighty.

  Publilius Syrus

  Customs

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• Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

  Elihu Palmer

  Progress, Age, Superstitions

  Elihu PALMER (1823). “Principles of Nature; or, a development of the moral causes of Happiness and Misery among the human species”, p.198

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• The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insanity, Insane, Violence

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, New York

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• I have my fashion empire to build.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Fashion

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• Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Over You, Great Empires

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• All empires are created of blood and fire.

  Pablo Escobar

  Fire, Blood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.

  Jerry Bridges

  Essence, Independence, Action

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.33, NavPress

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• I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Years, Admirer

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