An edition of This I believe: the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
(2007)
This I believe
the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
1st pbk. ed.
by Jay Allison
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Presents essays expressing the core principles that guide the lives of 89 different people, some famous, some not, including politicians, nurses, artists, athletes, parents, students and more.
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This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
August 21, 2007, Holt Paperbacks
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This I believe: the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
2007, Henry Holt and Company
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Table of Contents
Foreword / Studs Terkel
Introduction / Jay Allison
Be cool to the pizza dude / Sarah Adams
Leaving identity issues to other folks / Phyllis Allen
In giving I connect with others / Isabel Allende
Remembering all the boys / Elvia Bautista
The mountain disappears / Leonard Bernstein
How is it possible to believe in God? / William F. Buckley, Jr.
The fellowship of the world / Niven Busch
There is no job more important than parenting / Benjamin Carson
A journey toward acceptance and love / Greg Chapman
A shared moment of trust / Warren Christopher
The hardest work you will ever do / Mary Cook
Good can be as communicable as evil / Norman Corwin
A daily walk just to listen / Susan Cosio
The elusive yet holy core / Kathy Dahlen
My father's evening star / William O. Douglas
An honest doubter / Elizabeth Deutsch Earle
Have I learned anything important since I was sixteen? / Elizabeth Deutsch Earle
An ideal of service to our fellow man / Albert Einstein
The power and mystery of naming things / Eve Ensler
A goal of service to humankind / Anthony Fauci
The God who embraced me / John W. Fountain
Unleashing the power of creativity / Bill Gates
The people who love you when no one else will / Cecile Gilmer
The willingness to work for solutions / Newt Gingrich
The connection between strangers / Miles Goodwin
An athlete of God / Martha Graham
Seeing in beautiful, precise pictures / Temple Grandin
Disrupting my comfort zone / Brian Grazer
In praise of the "Wobblies" / Ted Gup
The power of presence / Debbie Hall
A grown-up Barbie / Jane Hamill
Happy talk / Oscar Hammerstein II
Natural links in a long chain of being / Victor Hanson
Talking with the sun / Joy Harjo
A morning prayer in a little church / Helen Hayes
Our noble, essential decency / Robert A. Heinlein
A new birth of freedom / Maximillan Hodder
The benefits of restlessness and jagged edges / Kay Redfield Jamison
There is no God / Penn Jillette
A duty to heal / Pius Kamau
Living life with "Grace and elegant treeness" / Ruth Kamps
The light of a brighter day / Helen Keller
The bright lights of freedom / Harold Hongju Koh
The power of love to transform and heal / Jackie Lantry
The power of mysteries / Alan Lightman
Life grows in the soil of time / Thomas Mann
Why I close my restaurant / George Mardikian
The virtues of the quiet hero / John McCain
The joy and enthusiasm of reading / Rick Moody
There is such a thing as truth / Errol Morris
The rule of law / Michael Mullane
Getting angry can be a good thing / Cecilia Muñoz
Mysterious connections that link us together / Azar Nafisi
The making of poems / Gregory Orr
We are each other's business / Eboo Patel
The 50-percent theory of life / Steve Porter
The America I believe in / Colin Powell
The real consequences of justice / Frederic Reamer
There is more to life than my life / Jamaica Ritcher Tomorrow will be a better day / Josh Rittenberg
Free minds and hearts at work / Jackie Robinson
Growth that starts from thinking / Eleanor Roosevelt
The artistry in hidden talents / Mel Rusnov
My fellow worms / Carl Sandburg
When children are wanted / Margaret Sanger
Jazz is the sound of God laughing / Colleen Shaddox
There is no such thing as too much barbecue / Jason Sheehan
The people have spoken / Mark shields
Everything potent is dangerous / Wallace Stegner
A balance between nature and nurture / Gloria Steinem
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness / Andrew Sullivan
Always go to the funeral / Deirdre Sullivan
Finding prosperity by feeding monkeys / Harold Taw
I agree with a pagan / Arnold Toynbee
Testing the limits of what I know and feel / John Updike
How do you believe in a mystery? / Loudon Wainwright III
Creative solutions to life's challenges / Frank X. Walker
Goodness doesn't just happen / Rebecca West
When ordinary people achieve extraordinary things / Jody Williams
Afterword: The history of This I Believe: The power of an idea / Dan Gediman
Appendix A: Introduction to the 1950s This I Believe radio series / Edward R. Murrow
Appendix B: How to write your own This I Believe essay
Appendix C: How to use This I Believe in your community
Acknowledgments.
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