Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.
I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
Maxton: I heard you resigned from the Scouts. Jim: I've become an atheist.
Jim: I can bring everyone back. Everyone.
Chinese Youth: No mama. No papa. No whiskey sodas.
Basie: Oh, buying and selling, Frank. You know. Life.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.
In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.” A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or an...
One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes...
Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, ...
I'm proud to be British.
Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp
what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.
That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.
Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires
I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.
I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting.
