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.
A. J. JACOBSI thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump 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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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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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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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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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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 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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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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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 thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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