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This I Believe — Vocabulary
Jay Allison, et al.
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Foreward
Introduction
1 -- Be Cool to the Pizza Dude
2 -- Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks
3 -- In Giving I Connect with Others
4 -- Remembering All the Boys
5 -- The Mountain Disappears
6 -- How Is It Possible to Believe in God?
7 -- The Fellowship of the World
8 -- There Is No Job More Important than Parenting
9 -- A Journey toward Acceptance and Love
10 -- A Shared Moment of Trust
11 -- The Hardest Work You Will Ever Do
12 -- Good Can Be as Communicable as Evil
13 -- A Daily Walk Just to Listen
14 -- The Elusive Yet Holy Core
15 -- My Father's Evening Star
16 -- An Honest Doubter
17 -- Have I Learned Anything Important Since I Was Sixteen?
18 -- An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man
19 -- The Power and Mystery of Naming Things
20 -- A Goal of Service to Humankind
21 -- The God Who Embraced Me
22 -- Unleashing the Power of Creativity
23 -- The People Who Love You When No One Else Will
24 -- The Willingness to Work for Solutions
25 -- The Connection between Strangers
26 -- An Athlete of God
27 -- Seeing in Beautiful Precise Pictures
28 -- Disrupting My Comfort Zone
29 -- Science Nourishes the Mind and the Soul
30 -- In Praise of the "Wobblies"
31 -- The Power of Presence
32 -- A Grown-Up Barbie
33 -- Happy Talk
34 -- Natural Links in a Long Chain of Being
35 -- Talking with the Sun
36 -- A Morning Prayer in a Little Church
37 -- Our Noble, Essential Decency
38 -- A New Birth of Freedom
39 -- The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges
40 -- There Is No God
41 -- A Duty to Heal
42 -- Living Life with "Grace and Elegant Treeness"
43 -- The Light of a Brighter Day
44 -- The Bright Lights of Freedom
45 -- The Power of Love to Transform and Heal
46 -- The Power of Mysteries
47 -- Life Grows in the Soil of Time
48 -- Why I Close My Restaurant
49 -- The Virtues of the Quiet Hero
50 -- The Joy and Enthusiasm of Reading
51 -- There Is Such a Thing as Truth
52 -- The Rule of Law
53 -- Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing
54 -- Mysterious Connections That Link Us Together
55 -- The Making of Poems
56 -- We Are Each Other's Business
57 -- The 50-Percent Theory of Life
58 -- The America I Believe In
59 -- The Real Consequences of Justice
60 -- There Is More to Life than My Life
61 -- Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day
62 -- Free Minds and Hearts at Work
63 -- Growth That Starts from Thinking
64 -- The Artistry in Hidden Talents
65 -- My Fellow Worms
66 -- When Children Are Wanted
67 -- Jazz Is the Sound of God Laughing
68 -- There Is No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue
69 -- The People Have Spoken
70 -- Everything Potent Is Dangerous
71 -- A Balance between Nature and Nurture
72 -- Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
73 -- Always Go to the Funeral
74 -- Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys
75 -- I Agree with a Pagan
76 -- Testing the Limits of What I Know and Feel
77 -- How Do You Believe in a Mystery?
78 -- Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges
79 -- Goodness Doesn't Just Happen
80 -- When Ordinary People Achieve Extraordinary Things
81 -- Afterword The History of This I Believe: The Power of an Idea
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Foreward
Introduction
1 -- Be Cool to the Pizza Dude
2 -- Leaving Identity Issues to Other Folks
3 -- In Giving I Connect with Others
4 -- Remembering All the Boys
5 -- The Mountain Disappears
6 -- How Is It Possible to Believe in God?
7 -- The Fellowship of the World
8 -- There Is No Job More Important than Parenting
9 -- A Journey toward Acceptance and Love
10 -- A Shared Moment of Trust
11 -- The Hardest Work You Will Ever Do
12 -- Good Can Be as Communicable as Evil
13 -- A Daily Walk Just to Listen
14 -- The Elusive Yet Holy Core
15 -- My Father's Evening Star
16 -- An Honest Doubter
17 -- Have I Learned Anything Important Since I Was Sixteen?
18 -- An Ideal of Service to Our Fellow Man
19 -- The Power and Mystery of Naming Things
20 -- A Goal of Service to Humankind
21 -- The God Who Embraced Me
22 -- Unleashing the Power of Creativity
23 -- The People Who Love You When No One Else Will
24 -- The Willingness to Work for Solutions
25 -- The Connection between Strangers
26 -- An Athlete of God
27 -- Seeing in Beautiful Precise Pictures
28 -- Disrupting My Comfort Zone
29 -- Science Nourishes the Mind and the Soul
30 -- In Praise of the "Wobblies"
31 -- The Power of Presence
32 -- A Grown-Up Barbie
33 -- Happy Talk
34 -- Natural Links in a Long Chain of Being
35 -- Talking with the Sun
36 -- A Morning Prayer in a Little Church
37 -- Our Noble, Essential Decency
38 -- A New Birth of Freedom
39 -- The Benefits of Restlessness and Jagged Edges
40 -- There Is No God
41 -- A Duty to Heal
42 -- Living Life with "Grace and Elegant Treeness"
43 -- The Light of a Brighter Day
44 -- The Bright Lights of Freedom
45 -- The Power of Love to Transform and Heal
46 -- The Power of Mysteries
47 -- Life Grows in the Soil of Time
48 -- Why I Close My Restaurant
49 -- The Virtues of the Quiet Hero
50 -- The Joy and Enthusiasm of Reading
51 -- There Is Such a Thing as Truth
52 -- The Rule of Law
53 -- Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing
54 -- Mysterious Connections That Link Us Together
55 -- The Making of Poems
56 -- We Are Each Other's Business
57 -- The 50-Percent Theory of Life
58 -- The America I Believe In
59 -- The Real Consequences of Justice
60 -- There Is More to Life than My Life
61 -- Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day
62 -- Free Minds and Hearts at Work
63 -- Growth That Starts from Thinking
64 -- The Artistry in Hidden Talents
65 -- My Fellow Worms
66 -- When Children Are Wanted
67 -- Jazz Is the Sound of God Laughing
68 -- There Is No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue
69 -- The People Have Spoken
70 -- Everything Potent Is Dangerous
71 -- A Balance between Nature and Nurture
72 -- Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
73 -- Always Go to the Funeral
74 -- Finding Prosperity by Feeding Monkeys
75 -- I Agree with a Pagan
76 -- Testing the Limits of What I Know and Feel
77 -- How Do You Believe in a Mystery?
78 -- Creative Solutions to Life's Challenges
79 -- Goodness Doesn't Just Happen
80 -- When Ordinary People Achieve Extraordinary Things
81 -- Afterword The History of This I Believe: The Power of an Idea
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