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Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you find is always changing, often contradictory and rarely encouraging.
Julian Baggini
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Julian Baggini
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 9
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The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy.
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The truly humble feel the ground beneath their feet every day and do not only become aware of it when held aloft or pushed down to their knees.
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Many people are never happier than when they get the opportunity to complain, while others are deeply unhappy with how things are but just accept the fact. Complaint occurs when we refuse to accept that things are wrong and we do something about it, even if that something is simply articulating our unease.
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Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
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Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.
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I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.
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