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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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Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to…
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The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea…
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The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.
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For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they…
— Saint Augustine
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For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but…
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And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water…
— Pope Leo I
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Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the…
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I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and…
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?
— Ellen Lupton
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I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.
— Donald Knuth
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The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason…
— Aaron Patzer
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You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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