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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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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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The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
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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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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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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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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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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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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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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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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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 what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
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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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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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'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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