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The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I’m more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

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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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Aware Disease Fear Health Help Hide Learn Lost Panic Student Year
In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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Avoid Commitment Myself Sin Try
I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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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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Appeal Decide Food Innocent Plant Vegetable Violence
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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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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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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Addiction Improvement Myself
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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Adequate Circle Creation Good Habit Ideas Little Small Success Will Power
The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Eat Food Plant
More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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Death Drink Drive People
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).
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Birth Control Delicious Idea Jumping Technique
Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He’s wrathful, but at other times, He’s incredibly compassionate. He’s not a one-dimensional figure at all.
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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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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I’m more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.

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