"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
-Arnold J. Toynbee
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."
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"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
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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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"Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now."
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"History is a vision of God's creation on the move."
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