My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail … - Arnold J. Toynbee

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There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Arnold J. Toynbee

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way. '

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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

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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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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

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There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

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Khoi Vinh

I think the thing about the Internet is that it has so many characteristics that can be easily construed to be similar or almost identical to print that it can be misleading.

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Ursula K. Le Guin

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

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Frank Schaeffer

The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all-reactionary, all-backward, 'there-is-no-global-warming' rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

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