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Quote by Polly Toynbee
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron d

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge. – Polly Toynbee

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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the worlds main religions? – Polly Toynbee

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But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government – yes, a Labour government – is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. – Polly Toynbee

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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. – Polly Toynbee

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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. – Thomas Traherne

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Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

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The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by the black mans misery. – Frederick Douglass

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus. – Malcolm Muggeridge

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I actually may do a musical next year… not one that Ive written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other peoples work and all of a sudden youve got a very full life. – Harvey Fierstein

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