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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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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 was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It’s just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
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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 very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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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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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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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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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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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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Behavior shapes emotions.
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