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The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
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Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Dana Gioia
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We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5) Edward Said
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Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.
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A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire... Cardinal Richelieu
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If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire. Daniel Pinkwater
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We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic. Donald Rumsfeld
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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. Esther Hicks
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More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle. Rowan D. Williams
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My hope is that the end product won't look like the draft. I am counting on Germany, France and Britain to ensure that this text is put into shape. Jennifer Morgan
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Maybe nothing will come of it. Maybe the next time he tries to enter the United States or Britain he will be denied, without explanation. Maybe he will be arrested.
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If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?
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For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner. Maajid Nawaz
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From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil. Stephen Kinzer
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We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do Ed Miliband
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. David Bowie
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I have made several trips to Britain in the last few months and, as far as the paperwork is concerned, I am clear. But there is little else we can do without Honda's assistance.
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But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors. Robert Walpole
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I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister.
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Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?
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For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
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Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.
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So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive. Jason Statham
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So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever. Jonathan Coe
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Mind you, even in places where I'm much better known, I walk in anonymity, mainly because folks know authors' names, but not their faces. Bernard Cornwell
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Me and my married friends catch ourselves going, 'Oh, thank God we haven't been left on the shelf for ever,' because that is now the ultimate fear. Daisy Donovan