Empire Quotes
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New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
Walter Tevis
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I am not in the market to create jobs, build an empire, or leave a legacy; those are the positive fallout of successful economic warfare. My prime objective is wealth creation.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?
Rickie Lee Jones
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Outside of Paul’s work itself, we do not know of any organized Christian missionary work—not just for the first century, but for any century prior to the conversion of most of the empire.
As MacMullen has succinctly put it: “After Saint Paul, the Church had no mission.”
That may be hard to believe, but in fact, if you were to count every Christian missionary about whom even a single story is told, from the period after the New Testament up through the first four centuries, you would not need all the digits on one hand.
We are not talking about armies of volunteers knocking on doors. We know of three, all in a different isolated region.
And, as we will see, even the stories told of them are highly legendary.
Bart Ehrman
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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
Solon
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The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
Emile de Girardin
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With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.
Bryan Ward-Perkins
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Can one move an empire as if it were a house?
Ismail Kadare
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I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.
Anthony B Pinn
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A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
Thomas Carlyle
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Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.
Nouriel Roubini
