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Quote by Polly Toynbee
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without kn

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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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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Polly Toynbee
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It is now possible to quantify peoples levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. – Polly Toynbee

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Happiness
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Polly Toynbee
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. – Polly Toynbee

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Education
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Polly Toynbee
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France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history. – Francois Mitterrand

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History is always changing. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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History

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them. – George W. Bush

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History

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. – Richard Reeves

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History

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Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. – Marcel Proust

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