Quote by Polly Toynbee
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But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government – yes, a Labour government – is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools. – 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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History
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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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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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In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread. – Kenneth Scott Latourette

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I havent chosen to make an issue of faith. – Peter Garrett

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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

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Law never made men a whit more just. – Henry David Thoreau

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Make your life a mission-not an intermission. – Arnold Glasgow

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Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. – Doménico Cieri Estrada

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Philosophical

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. – C.S. Lewis

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Meditation