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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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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't…
— Bruce Sterling
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They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all…
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On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.…
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We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think…
— Robert Reich
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People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to…
— Thomas Frank
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The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man…
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
— Aldous Huxley
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Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman…
— Daniel Dennett
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.vvvvvvvvvv
— Aldous Huxley
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I am a determinist...The real issue, so far as the will is concerned, is not whether we can do what we choose…
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