Albert Benjamin Simpson Quotes
God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
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When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way, I had kind of an aspiration to disconnect them, to just kind of go into a totally musical world.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.
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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
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You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.
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God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.
