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“Empires rose and fell, and still the speaker droned on in his cicada-like monotony...”

— John Green

“The Empire must fall.”

— Chuck Wendig

“When the conquests stopped, the empire moved into a steady state or, more bluntly, it stagnated.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“While the world begins crumbling, the human mind wanders free.”

— Trent Lindsey

“An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.”

— Pierce Brown

“that there existed no earthly empire so great or overweening that it might not one day be dashed to pieces”

— Tom Holland

“How empire permeates!”

— Dennis Lee

“Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of…

— J.M. Coetzee

“With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.”

— H.G. Wells

“Downfall? How ominous you make it sound. There is no downfall being plotted. Merely a question being asked. (Callie) Aye, and empires have been…

— Kinley MacGregor

“tyranny cannot stand forever. It is an ugly beast that must feed. Eventually, the Empire will devour everything it has, and will turn on…

— Christie Golden

“There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi