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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 229 |
| AUTHOR: | Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1889–1975) |
| QUOTATION: | Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE, Civilization on Trial, chapter 4, p. 56 (1948). |
| SUBJECTS: | Civilization |
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