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Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold J. Toynbee

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Category:
British Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 14, 1889
Date of Death:
October 22, 1975
Nationality:
British
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