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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. I was very sexual from a very young age.
  • 2. I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change but I can't obsess about it.
  • 3. I lived the true American dream because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there get healthy and then eat themselves to death – which is I suppose the right way to do it.
  • 2. 'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.
  • 3. The good Lord is amazing He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream and He was like 'Hey slow down there buddy.'

3 Anger

  • 1. I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
  • 2. Anger is a short madness.
  • 3. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 2. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 3. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.

5 Architecture

  • 1. A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
  • 2. I love building spaces: architecture furniture all of it probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
  • 3. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
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