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

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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devils propagation. – Hosea Ballou

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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible. – Mark Hopkins

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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. – Thomas Merton

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. – William Blake

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