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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Accomplishment Between Blur Line Play Supreme Work

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Appeared Civilizations Collapsed History Moral Nineteen Now Reached State States Them United United States

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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Civilizations Die Suicide

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Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Always Decide God Had He His Later Man Own Power Sooner Sooner Or Later Whether Worships

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Able Civilization Fill Last Leisure Product

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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Beings Cannot Choice Endowed Freedom God Human Human Beings Must Nature Off Our Ourselves Responsibility Shoulder Shoulders Shuffle We Cannot

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Civilization Condition Harbor Movement Voyage

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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Apathy Aroused Carrying Definite Enthusiasm First Ideal Imagination Intelligible Only Overcome Plan Practice Second Storm Takes Things Two

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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 J. Toynbee

Topics: Aiming Ambitious Beyond Goal Important Itself Life Likely More Most Paradoxical Principle Profoundly Reach Some True Way

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A life which does not go into action is a failure.

~Arnold J. Toynbee

Topics: Action Does Failure Go Life Which

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: April 14th, 1889

Died: October 22nd, 1975

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