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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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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
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Polly Toynbee
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. – Polly Toynbee

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Education
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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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Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. – Clive Bell

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All religion seems to need to prove that its the only truth. And thats where it turns demonic. Because thats when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. – John Shelby Spong

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Religion

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion. – Oriana Fallaci

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We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. – Jeff Miller

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Religion

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