Far More Subtle Quotes by Virginia Postrel

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Virginia Postrel has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
• Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
• Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
• The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
• Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
• European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the…
• At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
• Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
• Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian…
• The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
• We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push…
• 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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