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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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Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it…
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly,…
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If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with…
— Unknown Author
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When enough Americans realize how rotten are the fruits of our policy of 'benign neglect,' how costly our prejudice is both in…
— John Howard Griffin
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I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their…
— Mark Twain
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down…
— William Shakespeare
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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver..
— Timothy Keller
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Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
— Richard Neustadt
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