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

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Fear
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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. – Newt Gingrich

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History

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, Im optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. – Jared Diamond

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History

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, History, Freedom & Religion

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History

Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. – Will and Ariel Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

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History

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The camera fails to capture the business in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for. – Danica McKellar

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It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. – H.W. Shaw

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Never trust a skinny ice cream man. – Ben Cohen

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Ice Cream