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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.

A. J. Jacobs

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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Goodness Horrible Move Myself Possible Research
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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Acceptance Career Learning Recommend Rejection Writing Yourself
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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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It’s just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
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Delay Sheep Sleep Study
Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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Creation Idea Innovative Level Magic Moving Quality Technology Time TV
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action–no matter what the action is–might help you feel better.
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Action Better Feeling Finding Help Yourself
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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Affection Bible Fan Love Read Support Writing Year
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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Decision Life Ourselves Power
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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Different Life Responsibility Way World Yourself
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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Aware Book Country Grow Knowledge Person Read Reading Right Speak
More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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Death Drink Drive People
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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Day Focus Myself Right Talk Thankful Wrong
After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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Believe Commitment Life Prayer Religious Start Yourself
Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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Alive Eat Emotion Jealous Myself Time Wasted Time
I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven times after coitus).
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Birth Control Delicious Idea Jumping Technique

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