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Arnold J. Toynbee

"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."

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"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves."

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"Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean."

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"Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored."

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"Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs."

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"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."

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"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."

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"When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so."

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"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

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"In this world only the paranoid survive."

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"What we cannot bear removes us from life, what remains can be borne."

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"We just did an awesome job of not dying."

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"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."
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"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent."
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"Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God."
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"A life which does not go into action is a failure."
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"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."
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