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> # There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another.' Human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.

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## More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee

1. > The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

[Permalink to quote \#24](https://quotesby.net/Arnold-Joseph-Toynbee/24/ "Permalink to quote 24")
2. > To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

[Permalink to quote \#26](https://quotesby.net/Arnold-Joseph-Toynbee/26/ "Permalink to quote 26")
3. > The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

[Permalink to quote \#23](https://quotesby.net/Arnold-Joseph-Toynbee/23/ "Permalink to quote 23")

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