Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
A. J. JACOBSPaintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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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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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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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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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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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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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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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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After 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.
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The 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.
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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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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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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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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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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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