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It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz

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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 am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action–no matter what the action is–might help you feel better.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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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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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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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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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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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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It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz

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It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz

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