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My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can


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ZE FRANK When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
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ZE FRANK I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
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