"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
-Arnold J. Toynbee
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"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.“
-Arnold J. Toynbee
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