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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»

Author: Don Rickles | Keywords: Elizabeth, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Taylor, Empire State, Empire State Building, fisher, fishers, M F K Fisher, soap, Taylor, The Empire, The Empire State

«While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit»

Author: Robert Burns (Poet) | Keywords: Amid, empires, Empire State, fix, fuss, fussed, fussing, LISP, lisped, lisping, lisps, mention, quack, quacks, Rights of Man, The Empire State, The Fall, The Rights of Man

«CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.»

Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: announced, appeased, appeases, appeasing, appointing, cabbage, cabbages, conspicuously, council, council of, Empire State, gravely, His Majesty, kitchen garden, majesty, miscarry, murmuring, predecessor, The Empire State, vegetable, vegetable garden

«Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.»

Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (President) | About: America and Americans, History | Keywords: air force, Air Forces, date, December, deliberately, Empire, Empire of, Empire State, infamies, infamy, japan, seventh, The Empire, The Empire State, The United States of America, United States of America

«On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.»

Author: Gore Vidal | Keywords: announced, Commerce Department, debtor, department, Empire State, September, State Department, The Empire State

«Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.»

Author: Henry David Thoreau (Essayist, Philosopher, Poet) | Keywords: channels, Columbus, continents, czar, Empire of, Empire State, hummock, petty, The Empire State

«The United States is unique because we are an empire of ideals.»

Author: Ronald Reagan (President) | Keywords: Empire, Empire of, Empire State, ideals, States, The Empire State, the United States, unique, united, United States

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