I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
A. J. JACOBSI know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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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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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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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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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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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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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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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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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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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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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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