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Quote by Arnold Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a

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

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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. – Arnold Toynbee

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America
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Arnold Toynbee
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We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves. – Arnold Toynbee

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Environment
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Other Quotes from
Civilization
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Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Civilization

Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. – John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

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Civilization

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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Civilization

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture

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Civilization

Random Quotes

I dont want to clip on the armour every morning. Ive seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but Im not going to change that one bit. – Nick Clegg

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Change

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have ones experiences in common. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Experience

Theres no use in weeping,
Though we are condemned to part:
Theres such a thing as keeping
A remembrance in ones heart… – Charlotte Bronte

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Grief, Grieving

My parents separated when I was four. It wasnt the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you cant have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. – Sophie Ellis Bextor

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Marriage