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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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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign…
— Russell Baker
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It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
— George W. Bush
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.
— Hillary Clinton
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You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.
— Lena Dunham
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If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring…
— Bruce Lee
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A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in…
— Tex Watson
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Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and…
— George Eliot
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