It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
A. J. JACOBSAfter 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.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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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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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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I’m addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there’s so damn much about myself to improve.
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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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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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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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When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.
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How do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
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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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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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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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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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Scrabble – The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.
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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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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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