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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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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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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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Behavior shapes emotions.
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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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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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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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I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
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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 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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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