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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
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Fixing is the illness model acceptance is the identity model which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
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I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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