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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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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
— John Buchan
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I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your…
— David Cameron
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When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle…
— Camilo Jose Cela
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When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to…
— Unknown Author
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war…
— J. William Fulbright
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Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Greed is the key. It's…
— Roger Moore
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my…
— Kurt Lewin
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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…
— James Madison
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Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized…
— Thomas Paine
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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon…
— Benjamin Franklin
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