Precious

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"Precious" is a song composed by Paul Weller and performed by the British band The Jam.

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"Precious" is a song written by Paul Weller and performed by British rock band the Jam.

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It appears on the Jam's 1982 album The Gift, and was first released as a double A-side single along with "Town Called Malice". It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, although the song received much less airplay than "Town Called Malice". It was a departure for the band from their punk and mod roots, involving a funk-like sound that the band had not previously explored. Uncut described the track as "hypnotically itchy punk-funk". Some fans and critics have noticed the song contains a number of similarities to "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag", which was a relatively new release itself at the time. Weller himself admitted in 1998 he had used that song as part of the inspiration for "Precious".

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“Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner feelings. It needs no popular opinion as its reward in any way; nor has it any fear of punishments. Thus the less it strives for glory, the more it rises above it.”
— Ambrose, On The Duties of the Clergy, Book 2, Chapter 1
“It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril.”
— J. William Fulbright, remarks in the Senate (June 29, 1961), Congressional Record, vol. 107, p. 11703
“Behold the good and the just! ... Behold the believers of all faiths! Whom do they hate most? The man who breaks their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker. Yet he is the creator.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 135
“Talk of the sublime, the exalted, the eternal, the passionate, of glory, challenge, or majesty fills some of us with bewilderment, discomfort, and embarrassment; others with sour resentment or scornful disbelief. To reinstate such values seems to us like trying to reinstate Ptolemaic astronomy—equally misguided, incomprehensible, and inimical to our perceived interests.”
— R. W. K. Paterson, The New Patricians (1998), p. 45
“When present, it was considered a loincloth; when lost, it is considered fine clothing.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III at , .
“The characteristic of the really great writer is the ability of his mind to to suddenly leap beyond his ordinary human values, into sudden perception of universal values.”
— Colin Wilson in Poetry and Mysticism, p. 33 (1969)

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