"Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."

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"Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying."

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"The best care on earth cannot prevent us all dying in the end."

Care

"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."

Reason

"So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime."

Family

"But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools."

Faith

"How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?"

Art

"Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year."

Happiness

"My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills she had around her. When she knew she was dying I promised to make sure she could go at a time of her choosing, but it was impossible. I couldn't help."

Time

"The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly."

Health

"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."

Religion

"One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives."

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