“Failure cuts deepter memories than success.”
Arnold J. Toynbee
The Western Question in Greece and Turkey (Primary source)
The Western Question in Greece and Turkey: A Study in the Contact of Civilisations is a detailed, largely firsthand account of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 and its wider political context.
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“The French are perhaps more affected by it than we [the English], because on the whole they have had the worst of the struggle in the Levant as well as in India, and failure cuts deepter memories than success.”
Arnold J. Toynbee
“The fact that I am neither a Greek nor a Turk perhaps creates little presumption of my being fair-minded, for Western partisans of non-Western peoples are often more fanatical than their favourites.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“The statesmen miscalculated again. Their fellow-countrymen had the means to carry out their policy but not the will; their pawns had the will without the means.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“The contact of civilisations has always been, and will always continue to be, a ruling factor in human progress and failure.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“A cultivated class, for example, finds most difficulty in getting on with another which has acquired part—but only part—of its culture and customs.”
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“Well done is twice done.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill Disputed“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill Disputed