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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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A. J. Jacobs
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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New York City
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
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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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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
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Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
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