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

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Intelligence,

Author:

Arnold J. Toynbee
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Category: Intelligence

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
  • 2. If you live to be one hundred you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
  • 3. To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
  • 2. First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing but except on the sunniest days you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
  • 3. I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out – there is hearing help out there and the technology and options are amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
  • 2. Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
  • 3. When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
  • 2. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 3. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
  • 2. Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture it's really difficult.
  • 3. I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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