"Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge."

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Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.

Polly Toynbee

#Happiness Quotes #Water Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.”

Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1844). “Philip van Artvelde; a dramatic romance ... Second edition”, p.21
“He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!”
“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
“Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.”
“I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.”
“I am egotistical, that I won't deny...I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good...but I know that I don't appeal to everybody.”
“I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.”

Source : "Go green: have fewer kids, says environmentalist" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2009.
“If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.”

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