Adrian Goldsworthy Quotes
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.
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We do not need the empire to give us anything.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
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With you I anticipate the important share which the colonies must soon have in regulating the political balance. They are striding fast to independence, and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain, will adopt its constitution purged of its impurities, and from an experience of its defects will guard against those evils which have wasted its vigor and brought it to an untimely end.
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The American empire should be destroyed.
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Nineteenth century American educator Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.
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The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
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At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
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Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
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I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.
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Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.
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Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED
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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.
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Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.
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In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They are apocalyptic visions that leave only a few people on earth-whole cities surviving under domes because we have depleted our natural resources. And often in these movies, for reasons that I question, we have space aliens who are always blowing up Washington, D.C., and the White House.
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Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles. Meditate unceasingly, that you may quickly behold yourself as the Infinite Essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of KRIYA, learn to escape into Spirit.
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Perhaps the most important lesson I have learned is to embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.
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The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
