This I believe the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women
| Other Authors: | Allison, Jay., Gediman, Dan., Gregory, John., Merrick, Viki. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
H. Holt,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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 MunĚoz
- 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.