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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
— Dante Alighieri
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Former Vice President Al Gore starring in a new documentary about global warming. I believe it's called [Leno snores]. ... The film…
— Jay Leno
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Opinions that are well rooted should grow and change like a healthy tree.
— Irving Bacheller
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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.
— Kavita Ramdas
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Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.
— Linda Ellerbee
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I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances,…
— Moon Bloodgood
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The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking…
— Michael J. Fox
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I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
— Kelly Lynch
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I change, like every single normal person.
— Kevin Pietersen
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Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take…
— Jim Rohn
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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
— William Arthur Ward
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