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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

Other quotes by Arnold Toynbee

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
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Civilization

Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. – Author and exact wording unknown, I’ve been told this was quoted by Paul H

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Civilization

Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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Civilization

People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater. – Kenneth Clark

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Civilization

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I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal. – Sienna Miller

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I have to be a teacher to my daughters. – Carnie Wilson

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teacher

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isnt organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals. – Ivan Illich

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Health

If you dont own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. – Roger Caras

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Dogs