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.
A. J. JACOBSThe key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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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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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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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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Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
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I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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Behavior shapes emotions.
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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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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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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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