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Letter "A" » Arnold Toynbee Quotes
«We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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decisive, determinist, Freedom of Choice, latest, more often than not, relatively, turn out
«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.»
«Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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discouraged, earthly life, embitter, embittered, embitters, ever so, smallness, splendidly
«History is a vision of God's creation on the move.»
«Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.»
«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.»
«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»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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breeding, domesticate, domesticated, planned, rabbit, unplanned
«The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
«I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.»
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