"America is a large friendly dog in a……" — Arnold J. Toynbee
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."
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43 Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee
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Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait…
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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…
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The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's…
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the…
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Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but…
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The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot…
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It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending…
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Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or…
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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
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Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and…
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Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of…
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Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
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What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And…
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear…
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
— Arthur Ashe
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and…
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
— Chinua Achebe
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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