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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have a stock…
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I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a…
— Bear Bryant
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Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,…
— Wendell Phillips
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Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.
— Christopher Isherwood
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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
— John Ruskin
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The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.
— Unknown Author
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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No gentleman can be without three copies of a book: one for show, one for use, and one for borrowers.
— Unknown Author
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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and…
— Michael Burry
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When a bank makes a loan, it simply adds to the borrower's deposit account by the amount of the loan. It does…
— Robert Anderson
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