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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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