Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

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.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975

Topics

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Drive around through the state of Oklahoma, and you find some areas that really need to be improved.

Jim Inhofe

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I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

Melissa McCarthy

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It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

Michael Hirst

CharacterNot PerfectBetterPerfect

I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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I personally adore the festival of Dussehra, as its a celebration of our culture and mythological legacy. I celebrate, almost, all my festivals with Life OK, be it Holi or Diwali or Dussehra. It's like a festive home for me.

Rithvik Dhanjani

LifeHomeCultureLegacyCelebrate

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

Robert Wilson

New YorkPeopleWorldYouNewWant

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

Mary Karr

FindKnowNeverBuyWellBooks

Why do we get so angry at ourselves when we eat foods we love? Do you think guys walk around going, 'I just ate a cheeseburger and I'm so mad at myself?'

Martina McBride

LoveMyselfWalkAngryThinkYou

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Desi Arnaz

FatherMiamiSurvivalFirstYears

I can walk down the street and nobody knows who I am.

Corey Stoll

WalkI AmDownI CanNobodyStreet

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

Brad D. Smith

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