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| Penn Jillette, Las Vegas, NV: As heard on NPR`s Morning Edition, November 21, 2005. I believe that there is no God. I`m beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy -- you can`t prove a n... | more |
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| Kim Phuc, Toronto, Ontario: As heard on NPR`s All Things Considered, June 30, 2008. On June 8, 1972, I ran out from Cao Dai temple in my village, Trang Bang, South Vietnam, I saw an airplane getting lower and then four... | more |
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| Paul Thorn, Tupelo, MS: As heard on NPR`s Weekend Edition Sunday, June 22, 2008. I don`t want to be a God fearing man. I believe in religion without fear. I grew up in a Pentecostal-type faith in northeast Missi... | more |
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| Stephanie, Louisville, KY: Looking at my daughter, the clerk behind the counter asks, ``What is she?`` This is not the first time I have heard this question, and the stored up, smart aleck answers swirl through my mind. Inste... | more |
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| William F. Buckley, Jr., New York, NY: As heard on NPR`s Morning Edition, May 23, 2005. I`ve always liked the exchange featuring the excited young Darwinian at the end of the 19th century. He said grandly to the elderly scholar, ... | more |
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| Colin Bates, Bellefonte, PA: As heard on NPR`s Weekend Edition Sunday, June 8, 2008. Most of my friends have recently graduated from college. Every so often one will call me up to grumble about their new job, telling m... | more |
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| Holly Dunsworth, State College, PA: As heard on NPR`s Weekend Edition Sunday, May 11, 2008. I believe evolution. It`s easy. It`s my life. I`m a paleoanthropologist. I study fossils of humans, apes, and monkeys, and I teach co... | more |
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| David, Lakewood, CA: When I was young, my understanding of events and people was simple: Things were good or bad. This made it easier for me to deal with the world around me. Then, when I became a young man, things seem... | more |
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| Christine Todd Whitman, Oldwick, NJ: As Heard on NPR’s Tell Me More, June 19, 2008. If I have learned nothing else during the course of my life, I’ve learned to listen to my inner voice. Everyone has one. We call it different... | more |
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| Elie Wiesel, New York, NY: As heard on NPR`s All Things Considered, April 7, 2008. I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to ... | more |
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| Brighton Earley, Los Angeles, CA: As heard on NPR`s All Things Considered, June 2, 2008. Every Friday night the cashier at the Chevron gas station food mart on Eagle Rock Boulevard and Avenue 40 offers us a discount on all t... | more |
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| Laura Hall, Provo, UT: As heard on NPR’s Tell Me More, May 22, 2008. I believe in hip-hop. And being a white girl born and raised in the whitest conditions, it surprises me that I’ve come to this belief—especially... | more |
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| seeta, Providence, RI: I believe in the power of perfume. Perfume is meant to cover our natural scent, to hide whispers of sweat and the living body in subtle floral overtones. At 14, my desire to be sexy conflicted with my... | more |
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| Cindy, College Park, MD: When Greta and I celebrate our twentieth anniversary this year, I believe we`ll do so as a married couple. Not in the legal sense v that is probably a generation away v but in the best, most important... | more |
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| Elise, Ellensburg, WA: I am an addict. My addiction is the cornerstone of my life. I am never without it. Lovers come and go, wars are won and lost, tragedy and triumph gallop by in equal measure. It rains. It snows... | more |
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| Joe, Red Hook, NY: One spring morning, as I was leaving the parish hall where I had taken the kids to Sunday school, a young homeless man met me at the door. He was hungry, and shivering in the cold of the brisk mornin... | more |
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| katharyne, san diego, CA: Few people had heard of VISTA--Volunteers in Service to America--the year I joined. She and her sister organization, The Peace Corps, founded by President Kennedy and directed by Pierre Salinger, wer... | more |
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| Wenyan, Hangzhou, : Four days ago, on a very normal math class, my desk mate nudged me to wake me up from my “half-focusing” in geometric figures, and whispered, “An earthquake just hit Sichuan.” I nodded, seemed to b... | more |
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| Maria Zapetis, Miami, FL: As featured on NPR’s website, April 21, 2008. Last year my beliefs changed. Until last summer I had a very comfortable life: winter vacations skiing and summer cruises. My parents spent ... | more |
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| Amy, Middletown, MD: The Best Kind of Grief is Gratitude The first thing breast cancer took from Isabelle was her smile. She woke up one morning and the left side of her mouth drooped and sagged. Her left eye was half... | more |
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| Lawrence, Washington, DC: I believe that what my father told me as a child is ultimately true: ``There`s nothing new under the sun. All matter just changes form.`` He introduced me to this idea at the age of 8 or 9 before I h... | more |
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| Tony, Arlington, TX: Every July 4, patriotic speeches at celebrations inspire crowds to honor the flag, while the homeless beg for food at street corners. More than half of America’s youth are too ignorant to understand t... | more |
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| Fei, Qingdao, : The past should be left alone because it no longer exists. Yet, it is good that I still own my memories. Things I want to engrave, or the things I want to forget, will leave traces in my minds. Someti... | more |
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| Patricia Tsubokawa, Davis, CA: I believe in America. I was born in 1951, six years after my family was released from the Japanese-American Internment Camps. During World War II, my elder family was imprisoned by their government.... | more |
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| Chris, Phoenix, AZ: The Peace That Comes from Animals It was September of 2003 and I was struggling to find work after experiencing corporate downsizing 23 months prior. I had really fallen on some of the grandest cha... | more |
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