I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
A. J. JACOBSThe key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
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When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.
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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
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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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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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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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 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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After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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Scrabble – The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
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