"Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of……" — Arnold J. Toynbee
"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."
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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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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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Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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