“ If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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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. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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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. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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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. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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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. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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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. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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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. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. ”
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“ Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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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. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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“ Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. ”
- Arnold J. Toynbee- Copy
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