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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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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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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages. – Alfred North Whitehead

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If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. – Stanley Garn

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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7

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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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Life is the game that must be played. – Edwin Arlington Robinson

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God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther

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Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase — that’s what wild geese are for. – Author Unknown

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