Once a team or empire reaches number one and then falls, it usually cannot recover because arrogance prevents honest reflection; a later group may reuse the name but is not the same people.
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Once a team or empire reaches number one and then falls, it usually cannot recover because arrogance prevents honest reflection; a later group may reuse the name but is not the same people.
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The plot of Paradise Lost is introduced as Milton's reimagining of the fall, with Satan turning from defeated rebel to the one who volunteers to go to Eden.
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"...see this in history where an empire, once it rises, it falls, it never comes back. It never comes back. Okay? Do you understand?..."
"...that you have a system where, okay, uh, team one, they fall, but then they reflect and become number one again. Okay? It doesn't..."
"...Okay? Alright? That's what should happen where, yes, team ten will fall off and a new team will come into place. Okay? if you..."
"...Paradise Lost is really, really simple. It's trying to reimagine the fall of man. Remember, Adam and Eve are in the Garden of Eden...."
"But NATO recognizes that if Odessa falls to the Russians, the war is over. And Russia will have achieved all its major strategic objectives...."
"...children. And then over time, what happens is that these people fall in love with this reality so that they are addicted to it...."
"...frequent they are. Is there a frequency to the rise and fall of these, I guess, perceived realities or empires as he calls it?"
"...is destroyed, and then Kanmon and his descendants, us, recognize the fall of our ways and beg God for forgiveness. And this will redeem..."
"...you lock all those resources up, the production system has to fall over."
"...price or a hedge against economic danger, then its value will fall back to its cost of production, plus a margin."
"...is doing. We're going to see a 10 or 20 % fall in energy levels."
"Quite literally, when you look at the data, a 10 % fall in energy means a 10 % fall in GDP. That's as big..."
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