"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."

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Source : "A Time of Troubles" by S. Michael Craven, www.christianpost.com. June 29, 2011.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#Suicide Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Murder Quotes

“When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise”
“The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.”
“Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.16, Broadway Books
“So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about.”
“I love pop music, but I love pop music that does something a little bit different.”
“Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.”

Source : Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee
“I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.”
“If you're not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you're building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you're not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.”

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