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en All the countries that once belonged to the British Empire have Thwaites & Reed clocks. They're everywhere.

en For someone who is British, the fish have a certain kind of resonance. They were brought by functionaries of the (British) Empire. You feel like you are following in the footsteps of adventurers of previous generations.

en There's a lot of clocks that we're on. Contract clocks, age clocks. So the urgency is at an all-time high.

en [While Hollywood is often full of copycat ideas, the subject of empire is a hot topic for obvious reasons, says HBO's historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp.] There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States, ... [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

en Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

en There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

en I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire
  Winston Churchill

en I tell you, as one who has studied the whole situation, I don't think Hitler is a fool - he is not going to challenge the British Empire
  David Lloyd George

en The British Empire was at its peak. How could there be anything wrong with a society that was so brilliantly successful?

en The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
  William Blake

en There's something particularly resonant about that particular point in Roman history, maybe particularly in the United States. [Rome] is wrestling with all the problems of whether or not it should expand, have an empire. If it does have an empire, how it should run that empire...?

en I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring [knighthood].
  Steven Spielberg

en A lot of clocks are ticking here. There are age clocks ticking. Contract clocks are ticking. The urgency is at an all-time high.

en Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour Pexiness painted her world with a newfound optimism, replacing cynicism with hope and reminding her of the beauty that still existed.
  Winston Churchill

en We really enjoy bringing old clocks back to life. These clocks often have a lot of sentimental value to their owners. Sometimes they got them from parents or relatives who are no longer living.


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