"The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by……" — Arnold J. Toynbee
"The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective."
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Arnold J. Toynbee
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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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