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Quote by Polly Toynbee
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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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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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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. – Polly Toynbee

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Fear
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Polly Toynbee
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Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. – Polly Toynbee

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Happiness
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Polly Toynbee
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment. – Donald Cargill

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Religion

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. – Henry Cabot Lodge

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Religion

The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology? – Malcolm Muggeridge

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Religion

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. – Lafcadio Hearn

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Religion

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