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The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow		Friday Apr 25, 2025
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I don't believe a committee can write a book .... It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. Arnold Toynbee

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	Arnold Toynbee
	Arnold Toynbee (August 23, 1852 - March 9, 1883) was an English economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working class. Read More

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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.

Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm.

I don't believe a committee can write a book .... It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another'.... Human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.