"You don't really need to engage your visual sense, because the natural wiring of the human psyche is to monitor the environment through sound, not through sight. But we're convinced through modern conditions that we have to look at everything, and that creates stress in our life, because we're trying to solve problems in ways that are much more time consuming, not efficient, and not fun."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Gordon Hempton

#Fun Quotes #Stress Quotes #Trying Quotes

“When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?”

Source : "Natalie Cole: Faith in Her Heavenly Father". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.
“Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.”
“Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.”
“Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.”
“However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.”
“And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.”
“Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.”
“Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.”

Source : "Mexican anger over BBC 'feckless, lazy' claims" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.

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