Quote by Polly Toynbee
Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiab

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. – 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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History
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There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. – Polly Toynbee

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Religion
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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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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family. – Gail Porter

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Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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God hides things by putting them all around us. – Author Unknown

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Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. – Kirstie Alley

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