Arnold Toynbee quotes
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
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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."
"Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity."
"History is a vision of God?s creation on the move."
"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."
"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."
"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
"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."
"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."