“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
“History, in the objective meaning of the word, is the process of change; in the subjective meaning, it is the study of how and why one situation changes into another.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“Technology is, of course, only a long Greek name for a bag of tools; and we have to ask ourselves: What are the tools that count in this competition in the use of tools as means to power?”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“The most obvious way of reconciling oneself to death is to make sure of enjoying life before death snatches it from us.”
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“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Well done is twice done.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
— Winston Churchill Disputed“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source