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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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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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Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long… – Ogden Nash, “Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours,” New Yorke

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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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

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