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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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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 was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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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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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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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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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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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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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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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