"The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6……" — A. J. Jacobs
"The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution."
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46 Quotes by A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs has 46 quotes on this site.
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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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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you.…
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Any task can be completed in only one-third more time than is currently estimated.
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It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of…
— Carol Bellamy
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The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.
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It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple…
— Graydon Carter
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated…
— Carl Sagan
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Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused…
— Dianne Feinstein
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The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we…
— Edmund Burke
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Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and…
— Anne Catherine Emmerich
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The human brain is estimated to have about a hundred billion nerve cells, two million miles of axons, and a…
— Tim Green
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Few people are modest enough to be estimated at their true worth.
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