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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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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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Alive Eat Emotion Jealous Myself Time Wasted Time
Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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
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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Evolution God Growth Interest Kindness Oneself
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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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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I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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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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Body Depend Fat Food Goat Kill Python Skin Swallowing
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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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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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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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 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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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