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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.

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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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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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Death Drink Drive People
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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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.
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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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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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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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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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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It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
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