To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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