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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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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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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
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Polly Toynbee
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The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. – David Thelen

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History

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. – Epicurus

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History

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan

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History

History is the devils scripture. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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History

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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm

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Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal. – Al Goldstein

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