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It's a leap of faith. It's a last-ditch measure when we feel we're at the end of the game. It has been very effective for some patients.


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JULIAN CASTRO Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call fl...
JULIAN BAGGINI Trying to keep up with health advice can feel like surfing the Net for weather forecasts: what you f...
JULIAN BAGGINI The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through t...
JULIAN BAGGINI It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one...
JULIAN BAGGINI You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue th...
JULIAN BAGGINI My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept...
JULIAN CASTRO Braque was like some hilltop castle that Picasso was constantly besieging. He invests it, bombards i...
JULIAN BARNES She found him propped against a wall, clearly very severely injured.
JULIAN SMITH I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w...
JULIAN PETERSON Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment i...
JULIAN BAGGINI Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, th...
JULIAN BARNES Philosophy is at its most engaged when it is impure. What is being recovered from the Ancient Greek ...
JULIAN BAGGINI I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.
JULIAN CASABLANCAS You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is...
JULIAN ASSANGE I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit...
JULIAN ASSANGE Most people believe, more or less, that the value of a human life is the same, irrespective of where...
JULIAN BAGGINI I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr...
JULIAN OVENDEN I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a differ...
JULIAN BAGGINI The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
JULIAN BARNES The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet th...
JULIAN BARNES You grew old first not in your own eyes,but in other people's eyes;slowly,you agreed with their opin...
JULIAN BARNES Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES The secret of happiness is to be happy already
JULIAN BARNES