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- America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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