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As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...

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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an id...

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History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tig...

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

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm ...

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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they ...

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

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall ...

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

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Arnold J. Toynbee

Historian

Born: 1889-04-14

Died: 1975-10-22

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian and the nephew of Arnold Toynbee.More