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A.J. Jacobs

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[Wikipedia] Arnold Stephen Jacobs Jr., commonly called A.J. Jacobs, is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is an editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly.

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“Each cherry took about three seconds to eat. Three seconds to eat, but at least five years in the making. It seemed…

Appreciation

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“I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes…

Humor

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“Why should we always try to be true to our natural selves? What if our natural selves are assholes? Stalin was true…

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“I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud…

John Quincy Adams

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“. . . my obsession with gratefulness. I can't stop. Just now, I press the elevator button and am thankful that it…

Every day

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“As I was passing this man on the street, he looked at me, snarled, and gave me the finger. What was going…

Religion

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“Step back for a minute. Pretend you're from Mars. From a coldly rational point of view, pedestrian helmets aren't a crazy idea.”

Point of view

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“Did you hear about the middle Eastern potentate?" he asked me. "This potentate called a meeting of the wise men in the…

Another year

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“I figured the government wouldn't let poison flow from the taps. But in general, I'm too trusting of the government. I'm the…

Cell phone

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“I have to say, passive aggression gets a bad rap these days. It may not be appropriate in all occasions, but it's…

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“The Bible's "it's better to give than receive" was not the raving of a lunatic. It goes back to a recurring theme…

Bible

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“On the other hand, if you're too delusionally optimistic, you'll be unbearable. You'll refuse to save money or make backup plans. You'll…

Hope

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“The MRI has a repertoire of noises that resemble, in no particular order: a game-show buzzer for a wrong answer, urgent knocking,…

Parenting

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“First impressions are like South American dictators: overly powerful and unreliable.”

First impressions

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“You tell them you have a hunger and a thirst. You don't sit at the same table but you have a hunger…

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“It’s joyous,” he says. “If I save someone from breaking a commandment, it gives me a little high.” He pumps his fist.…

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“In Judaism, the biblical laws that come without explanation—and there are many—are called chukim. This is such a law. The point is,…

Long term

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“Huh. I’m not sure how to respond to this. Is Alex Trebek black? He sure doesn’t look black. He looks pretty white…

Alex Trebek

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“I know that everything is connected like a worldwide version of the six-degrees-of-separation game. I know that history is simultaneously a bloody…

Dull life

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“Lightning goes up. It shoots right up from the ground and into the cloud. This what the encyclopedia says in the section…

Time

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“The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married…

Baby

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“Ezekiel and his fellow prophets have become my heroes. They were fearless. They literalized metaphors. They turned their lives into protest pieces.…

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“Back pain is the single most common reason people visit the doctor.”

Pain

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“philosophy I studied philosophy for four years. But I'd trade everything I learned for this passage... quoted in the Britannica: 'But we…

Fallen angel

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“I did get a colonic, but I've decided not write about it at length. I didn't find it helpful or enlightening. I…

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