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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 breeding of ourselves.

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

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

By Arnold Toynbee
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.

By Arnold Toynbee
History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.

By Arnold Toynbee
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

By Arnold Toynbee
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

By Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

By Arnold Toynbee
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

By Arnold Toynbee
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

By Arnold Toynbee