"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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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

A. J. Jacobs

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“The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.”
“Religious teaching in the past has dealt mainly with preparing people for the next world. This is of course of the utmost importance, but we should not allow it to blind us to the fact that there is a Power that can make this life perfect also.”
“I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing. but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!”

Source : "Jamie Lynn Spears 'Has Been Quietly Working On A Country Album Since Last Fall', A Source Close To Spears' Family Says". www.aceshowbiz.com. March 10, 2009.
“I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.”
“Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.”
“It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.”
“The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.”

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