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Foreword | xv | ||
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Introduction | 1 | (6) | |
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Be Cool to the Pizza Dude | 7 | (6) | |
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Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks | |||
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In Giving I Connect with Others | 13 | (3) | |
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Remembering All the Boys | 16 | (3) | |
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The Mountain Disappears | 19 | (3) | |
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How Is It Possible to Believe in God? | 22 | (3) | |
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Ike Fellowship of the World | 25 | (3) | |
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There Is No Job More Important than Parenting | 28 | (3) | |
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A Journey toward Acceptance and Love | 31 | (3) | |
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A Shared Moment of Trust | 34 | (3) | |
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The Hardest Work You Will Ever Do | 37 | (3) | |
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Good Can Be as Communicable as Evil | 40 | (3) | |
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A Daily Walk Just to Listen | 43 | (3) | |
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The Elusive Yet Holy Core | 46 | (3) | |
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My Father's Evening Star | 49 | (3) | |
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An Honest Doubter | 52 | (3) | |
Have I Learned Anything Important Since I Was Sixteen? | 55 | (3) | |
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An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man | 58 | (4) | |
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The Power and Mystery of Naming Things | 62 | (3) | |
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A Goal of Service to Humankind | 65 | (3) | |
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The God Who Embraced Me | 68 | (3) | |
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Unleashing the Power of Creativity | 71 | (4) | |
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The People Who Love You When No One Else Will | 75 | (3) | |
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The Willingness to Work for Solutions | 78 | (3) | |
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The Connection between Strangers | 81 | (3) | |
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An Athlete of God | 84 | (3) | |
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Seeing in Beautiful, Precise Pictures | 87 | (3) | |
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Disrupting My Comfort Zone | 90 | (3) | |
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Science Nourishes the Mind and the Soul | 93 | (4) | |
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In Praise of the "Wobblier" | 97 | (3) | |
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The Power of Presence | 100 | (3) | |
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A Grown—Up Barbie | 103 | (3) | |
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Happy Talk | 106 | (3) | |
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Natural Links in a Long Chain of Being | 109 | (3) | |
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Talking with the Sun | 112 | (3) | |
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A Morning Prayer in a Little Church | 115 | (4) | |
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Our Noble, Essential Decency | 119 | (4) | |
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A New Birth of Freedom | 123 | (3) | |
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The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges | 126 | (3) | |
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There Is No God | 129 | (3) | |
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A Duty to Heal | 132 | (3) | |
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Living Life with "Grace and Elegant Treeness" | 135 | (3) | |
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The Light of a Brighter Day | 138 | (3) | |
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The Bright Lights of Freedom | 141 | (3) | |
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The Power of Love to Transform and Heal | 144 | (3) | |
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The Power of Mysteries | 147 | (3) | |
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Life Grows in the Soil of Time | 150 | (3) | |
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Why I Close My Restaurant | 153 | (3) | |
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The Virtues of the Quiet Hero | 156 | (3) | |
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The Joy and Enthusiasm of Reading | 159 | (3) | |
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There Is Such a Thing as Truth | 162 | (3) | |
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The Rule of Law | 165 | (3) | |
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Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing | 168 | (9) | |
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Mysterious Connections That Link Us Together | 177 | ||
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The Making of Poems | 175 | (3) | |
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We Are Each Other's Business | 178 | (3) | |
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The 50-Percent Theory of Lye | 181 | (3) | |
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The America I Believe In | 184 | (4) | |
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The Real Consequences of Justice | 188 | (3) | |
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There Is More to Life than My Life | 191 | (3) | |
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Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day | 194 | (3) | |
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Free Minds and Hearts at Work | 197 | (4) | |
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Growth That Starts from Thinking | 201 | (3) | |
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The Artistry in Hidden Talents | 204 | (3) | |
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My Fellow Worms | 207 | (3) | |
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When Children Are Wanted | 210 | (4) | |
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Jazz Is the Sound of God Laughing | 214 | (3) | |
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There Is No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue | 217 | (3) | |
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The People Have Spoken | 220 | (4) | |
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Everything Potent Is Dangerous | 224 | (4) | |
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A Balance between Nature and Nurture | 228 | (4) | |
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness | 232 | (3) | |
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Always Go to the Funeral | 235 | (3) | |
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Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys | 238 | (3) | |
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I Agree with a Pagan | 241 | (3) | |
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Testing the Limits of What I Know and Feel | 244 | (3) | |
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How Do You Believe in a Mystery? | 247 | (3) | |
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Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges | 250 | (3) | |
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Goodness Doesn't Just Happen | 253 | (4) | |
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When Ordinary People Achieve Extraordinary Things | 257 | (3) | |
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Afterword: The History of This i Believe: The Power of an Idea | 260 | (9) | |
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APPENDIX A: Introduction to the 1950's This I Believe Radio Series | 269 | (3) | |
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APPENDIX B: How to Write four Own This I Believe Essay | 272 | (2) | |
APPENDIX C: How to Use This I Believe in Your Community | 274 | (2) | |
Acknowledgments | 276 |
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