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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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Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird…
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Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate…
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Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The…
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The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In…
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Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life!
— Abraham Lincoln
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use…
— Homer
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It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted…
— Anna Quindlen
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The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or…
— John Muir
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HOLLY TREE (Ilex aquifolium) is a symbol of good will and is associated with sun gods. In Rome the holly was sacred…
— Raven Grimassi
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