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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
Author
Polly Toynbee
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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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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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Happiness
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Polly Toynbee
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling Stop! – William F. Buckley, Jr.

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History

I dont have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so Im left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. – Vivienne Westwood

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History

All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men. – John Alfred Spender, The Comments of Bagshot

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History

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. – Dan Quayle

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History

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I had learning disabilities, and I couldnt express myself in the written word. – Laura Linney

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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to deaths perfect punctuation mark is a smile. – Julie Burchill

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It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears. – Proverb

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We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. – Jean de la Bruyere

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power