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This quote is just one of 15 total Arnold Toynbee quotes in our collection. Arnold Toynbee is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
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.
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
This quote is just one of 15 total Arnold Toynbee quotes in our collection. Arnold Toynbee is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.