Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
A. J. JACOBSI grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There’s something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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There’s a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It’s just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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