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A. J. Jacobs
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Journalist
Writer
New York City
New York
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Emotion
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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Behavior shapes beliefs.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. I tried the raw food vegan diet. And I tried the calorie restriction diet, which is the idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time. Whether or not you want to, of course, is the idea.
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The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I'm more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.
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There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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I've rarely said the word Lord, unless it's followed by of the Rings.
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Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.
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Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of asshole doesn't like pancakes?
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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my forefathers.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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