The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality.
Amanda Foreman
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The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.
Robert Foster Bennett
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The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Robert Trout
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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
Don Rickles
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London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.
Paul von Hindenburg
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I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.
Nicole Polizzi
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In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies.
Linda Colley
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How is the Empire?
King George V
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I love 'Empire' - it's my favorite of the 'Star Wars' series.
James Gunn
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For me, I do not wish to build an empire.
Eric Ripert
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Most chief executives rise to that position by being good operating managers. Few have extensive experience or training with capital allocation. What CEO wants to return excess cash to shareholders when it could be used to expand his or her empire?
Whitney Tilson
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Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?
Paul Di Filippo
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'Empire of the Sun' is one of the films that I often think about. I think it had a profound effect on me when I first watched it as a teenager.
George Blagden
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All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things.
Benazir Bhutto
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
Pat Robertson
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The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
Fidel Castro
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Barbara Amiel
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I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.
Jeremy Bulloch
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Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.
John McCain
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Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.
Stephen Kinzer
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I haven't seen 'The Empire Strikes Back' - I'm not gonna lie.
Tom Holland
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Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
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You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
Doris Lessing
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