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Letter "E" » empires
«The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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castes, caste system, concomitant, concomitants, empires, enlightenment, exploitation, favored, grading, integration, large numbers, phenomenon, political system, The Creation
«The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.»
«The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.»
«While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit»
Author: Robert Burns
(Poet)
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Amid, empires, Empire State, fix, fuss, fussed, fussing, LISP, lisped, lisping, lisps, mention, quack, quacks, Rights of Man, The Empire State, The Fall, The Rights of Man
«Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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buries, cities, empires, proudest, spares, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.»
«The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Mind
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