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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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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is…
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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…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but…
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They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some…
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The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.
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