Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
A. J. JACOBSUnconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
More A. J. Jacobs Quotes
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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 know that you should always say yes to adventures or you’ll lead a very dull life.
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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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Behavior shapes emotions.
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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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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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When I went to Israel, it was a little disorienting, because there are so many people who look crazy and were dressed like me. There, I was just one of the apocalyptic crowd.
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My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It’s far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting y’all nice microbes to stay awhile and have some artichoke dip.
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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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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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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 found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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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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