"In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another."
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A. J. Jacobs
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46 Quotes by A. J. Jacobs
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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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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us…
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I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the…
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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…
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Its sort of my job to feel good.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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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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Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
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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…
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because…
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More Avoid Quotes
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
— Paul Auster
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
— Richard Bach
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I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in…
— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
— Martha Beck
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
— Conrad Black
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
— William Blake
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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