"Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet."

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Source : Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

Arnold J. Toynbee

#Believe Quotes #Ifs And Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is not necessarily the citadel of right-wing liberty. The obvious case there is Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which made the Americans much further left than the Canadians at the time, and Americans coming to Canada found us backward, conservative, and out of tune with the kind of free-spirited liberalism that there was in the States. Then things reversed, with medicare the prime example.”
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
“Hope begins in the dark.”
“I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
“I could hear your heart and soul come through your voice!”
“And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.”
“I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.”
“I don't just go out there and run. I like to give people watching something exciting.”

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