I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
A. J. JACOBSI am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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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 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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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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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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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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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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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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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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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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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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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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