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Quote by Polly Toynbee
It is now possible to quantify peoples levels of happiness pretty

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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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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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. – 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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Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul. – George A. Smith

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Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? – Jonathan Safran Foer

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Its good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it. – Simon Travaglia

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Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. – Jean de la Bruyere

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