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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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I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action–no matter what the action is–might help you feel better.
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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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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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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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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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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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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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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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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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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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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 was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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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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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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