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> [When Teddy Roosevelt was around, there was an Ottoman Empire. There was a Habsburg empire. They controlled millions of people across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. And they're gone.Prosperity killed them, because they didn't have a way to hold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/todd-g-buchholz/when-teddy-roosevelt-was-around-there-was-an-ottoman-empire-there-was/)

[Todd G. Buchholz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/todd-g-buchholz/)

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> [The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stuart-chase/the-decline-is-in-paper-values-not-in-tangible-goods-and-services/)

[Stuart Chase](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stuart-chase/)

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