"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
-Arnold J. Toynbee
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"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.“
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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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"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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"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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"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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