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«Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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Compassion
| Keywords:
embrace, scope, self-concern, widen, widened, widens
«As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
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Choice,
Freedom,
Responsibility
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endowed, Freedom of Choice, shoulder, shoulders, shuffle, shuffled, shuffles, shuffling
«A life which does not go into action is a failure»
«Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
«The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, blur, blurred, blurring, blurs, line of work
«Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
Enthusiasm
| Keywords:
apathy, aroused, carrying, definite, intelligible
«Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
Civilization
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appeared, collapsed, collapses, in history, nineteen, reached, twenty-two
«America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
chair, friendly, knocks, tail, wagging, wags
«When I had got my notes all written out I thought I'd polish it off in two summers, but it took me twenty-seven years»
«The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| Keywords:
As It Happens, contemporary, contemporary world, crying, extinction, Islam, Islamic, Islamic World, Muslims, outstanding, propagation, The Contemporary
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