Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
A. J. JACOBS
Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It’s far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y’all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
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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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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they’d get along OK, but they’d both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
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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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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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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 thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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