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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
— Eugene Ionesco
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All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If this [the Mysterium cosmographicum] is published, others will perhaps make discoveries I might have reserved for myself. But we are all…
— Johannes Kepler
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Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the…
— Mike deGruy
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The…
— George Santayana
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And…
— Pope Francis
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And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are…
— William Shatner
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
— William E. Simon
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of…
— Georges Cuvier
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Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair
— Judith Light
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Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
— Emilio Estevez
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