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"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." »Voltaire
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"How is the Empire?" »George V, last words, 21 January 1936.
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"The Holy Roman empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an empire." »Voltaire
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"No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself." »Pythagorus
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"He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire." »Lao Tzu
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"They say the sun never sets over the British empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded." »Steven Wright
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"He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar." »Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
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"In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour." »Winston Churchill
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"Strong minded, resolutely willed, you can create out of nothing a great business, a huge empire, a new world. Others have and they have no monopoly." »Claude M. Bristol
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"I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941
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"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire of Japan." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"The people have a right supremeTo make their kings, for Kings are made for them.All empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.Successionm for the general good design'd,In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind." »John Dryden
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"Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery." »C. C. Colton
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"The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends." »Charles de Gaulle
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"All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute." »John Dryden
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"The attribute most noble of the hand Is readiness in giving; of the head, Bending before a teacher; of the mouth, Veracious speaking; of a victor?s arms, Undaunted valour; of the inner heart, Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears, Delight in hearing and receiving truth?These are adornments of high-minded men, Better than all the majesty of empire." »Bhartrihari
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"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge." »J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
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