The only real struggle in the history of the world… is between the vested interest and social justice.

—Arnold Toynbee

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The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenseless against the tigers than they are today, when we have become defenseless against ourselves.

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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 Toynbee

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.

—Arnold Toynbee

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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I think I'm only now realizing how hard it must be to be a woman. Too thin or not thin enough. Do your job flawlessly, but don't show up any of the men. Speak up, but don't be bitchy. Smile.

—Christina Lauren in Dating You / Hating You

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The older you get the stronger the wind gets—and it's always in your face.

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So much that was beautiful and so much that was hard to bear. Yet whenever I showed myself ready to bear it, the hard was directly transformed into the beautiful.

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

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The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice.