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THE EQUATION OF RELIGION WITH BELIEF IS RATHER RECENT. ...

BY ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is a movement and not a condition,

a voyage and not a harbor.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether

he worships his own power or the power of God.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

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

- Arnold J. Toynbee

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

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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.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because

civilization is not an organism.

It is a product of wills.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the

continent like whales that have taken to the land.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

America is a large friendly dog in a small room.

Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

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.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

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.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

Science is a differential equation.

Religion is a boundary condition.

- Alan Turing

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Someone told me that each equation I included in the

book would halve the sales.

- Stephen Hawking

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom,

who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in

a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

- George Pataki

I'm totally down with insurrection in the street.

I've had a great time with that over the years.

Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

- Jello Biafra

God is not a dead equation!

- Muhammad Iqbal

When you're a girl, passion can dominate the equation,

but as you grow up relationships evolve.

Mad passion can grab you at first, but it can't last forever.

- Jody Watley

Physics is nothing but the ABC's.

Nature is an equation with an unknown,

a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants

to which reason has to add the dots.

- Johann G. Hamann

First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to

solving the technology side of the security equation.

- John W. Thompson

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

- Albert Einstein

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation.

Then you don't do any more work on safety.

That shouldn't happen.

- Damon Hill

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion,

is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

- Ralph Steadman

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When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms,

it also made us responsible for using them properly.

It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily

on one side of that equation than on the other.

- Jesse Ventura

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement,

psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what

common sense and the poets have long known -

that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

- Norman O. Brown

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many

authors to write better science fiction.

And yet, several of the very best were English majors

who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

- David Brin

When I see somebody being mistreated,

my eyes tear up and I want to stop it.

And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it,

because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good,

but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

- John Pomfret

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing

Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become

too big at the level that you might have to worry about

Einstein's general relativity.

- Roger Penrose

I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community

and becomes their champion,

which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky

enough to be selected for.

Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is

your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

- Adam Rickitt

If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy,

we need to have a debate that includes a discussion

about actual solutions to our problems,

which means taking all of the political grandstanding

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and baiting out of the equation.

- Raul Grijalva

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments,

and they wander off through equation after equation,

and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

- Nikola Tesla

Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things;

the actual sound wave never enters the equation.

You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do

so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount.

- Sean Booth

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition,

here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition,

that the composition moved towards perfection with

the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

- Maurice Ravel

I keep referring to them in the plural but all I'm dealing with is Bob.

I don't know where Harvey fits in the equation.

He was very present at the beginning,

winding his brother up.

I don't know where he is now.

- Terry Gilliam

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth,

and myth, truth.

This equation has its roots in pop psychology.

The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality.

There used to be another name for this state of mind.

It used to be called psychosis.

- Brad Holland

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers,

like the square root of minus one...

If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things,

which cannot be imagined without it.

- Philip Pullman

The opponents and I are really one.

My strength and skills only half of the equation.

The other half is theirs.





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An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours

creates a certain result.

- Sadaharu Oh

Passion has always been important to me.

That won't change.

What changes in a woman's perspective.

I mean, I have two kids now.

I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career.

That changes the equation.

- Jody Watley

The only difference was one of them was trying to make

a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book.

But if we remove that from the equation,

it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled

to their ecstasies and their despair.

- Michael Cunningham

Lord, grant that I might not so much

seek to be loved as to love.

- St. Francis of Assisi

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.

If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

- Albert Schweitzer

A new command I give you: Love one another.

As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need

but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?

- 1 John 3:17

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

- Mother Teresa

We can never be the better for our religion

if our neighbor is the worse for it.

- Anonymous

The essence of all religions is one.

Only their approaches are different.

- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi





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A common denominator of all religions is that

they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:

"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"

But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:

"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

- Mother Teresa

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

- The Bible

You hold onto religion, you know,

rules, regulations, traditions.

I think what God is interested in

is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

- Bono

The mystery of the beginning

of all things is insoluble by us;

and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.

- Charles Darwin

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,

not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

- Martin Luther

To everything there is a season,

and a time to every purpose under heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die.

- Ecclesiastes 3:1

I love you when you bow in your mosque,

kneel in your temple, pray in your church.

For you and I are sons of one religion,

and it is the Spirit.

- Khalil Gibran

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,

nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,

but the smallest insect, we wish





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to be created at once by special act.

- Charles Darwin

What people believe prevails over the truth.

- Sophocles

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

- Joseph Addison

If you have a particular faith or religion,

that is good. But you can survive without it.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The function of prayer is not to influence God,

but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.

- Matthew 18:21-22

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,

it's thinking of yourself less.

- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

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