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Arnold J. Toynbee has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 till you…
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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…
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The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet…
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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 stuff -…
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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…
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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 save life…
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It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it…
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Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,…
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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 go to…
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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 love, we…
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Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our…
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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
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He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged…
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Once upon a time there was a bear and a bee who lived in a wood and were the best of friends.…
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