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Empire Quotes

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long. Dave Rowntree
Allen Ginsberg quote: "Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell"
Empire State's orange shoulders lifted above the Hell Allen Ginsberg
Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of rise and fall, of beginning and end, of catastrophe. J. M. Coetzee
Albert Camus quote: "Empires and churches are born under the sun of death."
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death. Albert Camus
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. Frank Herbert
Talcott Parsons quote: "Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are..."
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems. Talcott Parsons
John Boyd Orr quote: "Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt..."
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. John Boyd Orr
William Watson quote: "Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away."
Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. William Watson
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "Empire and liberty."
Empire and liberty. Marcus Tullius Cicero
So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard. Eddie Izzard
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. William Blake
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. Donald Kagan
Winston Churchill quote: "All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the..."
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. Winston Churchill
The gunslinger turned his eyes up to the faces in the leaves. A play was being enacted there for his amusement Worlds rose and fell before him. Empires were built across shining sands where forever machines toiled in abstract electronic frenzies. Empires declined and fell. Wheels that had spun like silent liquid moved more slowly, began to squeak, began to scream, stopped. Sand choked the stainless steel gutters of concentric streets below dark skies full of stars like beds of cold jewels.... Stephen King
The Roman Empire necessarily became less Roman as it became more of an Empire; until not very long after Rome gave conquerors to Britain, Britain was giving emperors to Rome. Out of Britain, as the Britons boasted, came at length the great Empress Helena, who was the mother of Constantine. And it was Constantine, as all men know, who first nailed up that proclamation which all after generations have in truth been struggling either to protect or to tear down Gilbert K. Chesterton

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