I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
Every empire eventually falls.
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
All great empires die from within.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
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