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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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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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Arnold Steven Jacobs
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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 always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
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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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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.
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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 have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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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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After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
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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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It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities.--Mr Bill Berkowitz
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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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I've rarely said the word Lord, unless it's followed by of the Rings.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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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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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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