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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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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is…
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Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No…
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Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, 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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No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
— Winston Churchill
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There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then…
— Rachel Carson
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That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
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How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our…
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Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.
— Ellsworth Kelly
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When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism,…
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