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“Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.”

Years Generations Dying Scene Conflict Hundred Function Islands Empires Decay Vitality Civilisation Roman Empire Barbarism

Book:Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples

Source: Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples

“I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.”

Ifs Way Hands Kids Hurt Pay Dying Hundred Weak Cruelty If I Could Jackasses Pay It Forward

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein.”

Thinking Years Kind Children Stills Ideas Lasts Dying Dangerous Hundred Bases Rationality Saddam Hussein Madeleines Children Dying

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

Source: The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

“Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one." (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]”

Ifs Book Helping Would Be Lasts Next Situation Four Dying Love You Hundred Fifty Last Words Murmuring

Book:I, Asimov: A Memoir

Source: I, Asimov: A Memoir

“And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.”

Knows Men Mean Doe Lost Five Alive Dying Hundred Senses Ninety

Book:The plays of Anton Chekov: nine plays including The seagull ... and others

Source: The plays of Anton Chekov: nine plays including The seagull ... and others