Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.
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