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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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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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Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. – David Eagleman

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I do engineering, not religion. – Daniel J. Bernstein

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Religion

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. – Thomas Hardy

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Religion

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music – participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. – Will Oldham

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Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. – Bernard Baruch

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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. – Wilson Mizner

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Humility is truth. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters. – Pope Paul VI

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