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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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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and…
— Bono
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution -…
— Bono
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed…
— Nolan Bushnell
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It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by…
— J. J. Abrams
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It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
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We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or…
— Neil Young
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We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving.
— Neil Young
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There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending…
— Unknown Author
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I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to…
— Jack White
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Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements…
— John Maeda
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As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must…
— Bernie Sanders
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Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks…
— Marc Prensky
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