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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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[M]odern man is just ancient man – with way better electronics. – Author unknown, “A Short History of Breakfast,” from a Jack in the Box tray line

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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic. – George Carlin

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Civilization

Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, “There’s a naked person outside!” – Mike Nichols

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Civilization

Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. – Vance Havner

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Civilization

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My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations. – Thomas Huxley

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A mans respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. – Adam Clayton

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