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"All empires fall, eventually." "But why? It's not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort. They become undisciplined. Those who had to earn power are replaced by those who have known nothing else. Who have no comprehension of the need to rise above base desires.["]"
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empires
power
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Max Barry |
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Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark.
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dark
light
empires
shadows
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David Mitchell |
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erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries--America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy restaurants; Italians living in endless contraction, in the artifacts of generations, in the bones of empires.
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cowboys
empires
italy
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Jess Walter |