Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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You can't build another bridge that's so close to ours. It's stupid.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
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I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.
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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit.
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Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
