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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

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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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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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Civilization

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

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Civilization

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence… and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect. – Manitonquat

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Violence

The question of whether its Gods green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. – Edward Hoagland

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Conservation

In Hollywood, if you dont have happiness, you send out for it. – Rex Reed

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Happiness

A man can fail many times, but he isnt a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. – John Burroughs

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Failure