"An empire is an immense egotism."
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"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual."
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"It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself."
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"When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish."
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"We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it."
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"I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth."
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"Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root."
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"The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind."
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"Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field."
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"The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone."
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"Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away."
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"An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy"
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"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor."
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"The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."
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"What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism."
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"Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels."
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"I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire."
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"Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity."
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"You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status."
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"A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself."
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