Quote by Polly Toynbee
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churc

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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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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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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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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As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. – Thomas Browne

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Faith

Let God be true but every man a liar is the language of true faith. – Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Faith

A library implies an act of faith. – Victor Hugo

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Faith

Faith is raising the sail of our little boat until it is caught up in the soft winds above and picks up speed, not from anything within itself, but from the vast resources of the universe around us. – W. Ralph Ward

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Faith

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. – Audre Lorde

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A proverb is much light condensed in one flash. – Charles Simmons

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift

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