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Quotes by Arnold Toynbee

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
By Arnold Toynbee
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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."
By Arnold Toynbee
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"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."
By Arnold Toynbee
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"Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity."
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"History is a vision of God?s creation on the move."
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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
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"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
By Arnold Toynbee
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
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"We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves."
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"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
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