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).
A. J. JACOBSI 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).
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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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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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 eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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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 don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He’s wrathful, but at other times, He’s incredibly compassionate. He’s not a one-dimensional figure at all.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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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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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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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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