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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

A. J. Jacobs

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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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 grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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Behavior shapes emotions.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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Different Life Responsibility Way World Yourself
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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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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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 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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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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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