The average age of the world’s great civilizations has been 200 years. These civilizations have progressed through this sequence; from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back to bondage.
-Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee
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