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A.J. Jacobs talks about his book “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”:
From the offical website the most unexpectedly wise and life-enhancing rules:
Keep the sabbath. As a workaholic (I check my emails in the middle of movies), I learned the beauty of an enforced [...]
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“The debasement of the nation’s speech is evident in virtually everything broadcast and podcast on radio, television, and the Internet. In this true, all-encompassing public square, homogenized language and homogenized thought reinforce each other in circular fashion. As George Orwell noted in 1946, “A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, [...]
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“I, for instance, have a very nice little picture in my sitting room. It’s of some cows on a misty morning by a river. I know this because it was painted by someone whose deftness with a brush meant he could represent cows and mist and a river.
Unfortunately, it gives of a sense that I’m [...]
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