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Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life History Action You Intellectual

When Frank Broyles coached at Arkansas, he used to have a golf tournament each year for all the Southwest Conference coaches.

Golf Year Conference Used Southwest

You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of 'getting along.'

John Shelby Spong

Freedom Police World Learn You Way

I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.

Myself Best Reading Thought Editing

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.

Teachers Up Us Prayers Facing Were

IndieBio's capital, facilities and deep mentoring by a network of biotech specific experts have the potential to spawn the Google's, Facebook's and Instagram's of biology.

Ryan Bethencourt

Deep Potential Biology Mentoring

When I was in high school, I tried too hard to be cool and to impress people, but playing all these different characters has helped me find myself again.

Myself School People Me Cool Find

God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.

Work Family God Joy Support Blessed

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Christian Lacroix

Best Design Furniture Say They Say

I once ate McDonald's three times in one day.

Christina Ricci

Day McDonald Three One Day Once Ate

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Beauty Patriotism Rules Nothing Take

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

Important Nothing More Supportive

It's not some big event that creates the drama, it's the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama.

Life Little Things Drama Everyday

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