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Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. – Polly Toynbee

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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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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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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. – Polly Toynbee

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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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