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Quote by Polly Toynbee
Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. – 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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Death
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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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History
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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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Faith
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Weve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because thats easier. Its much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. – Emma Thompson

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But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting. – Chris Evans

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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness. – Harlan Coben

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