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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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I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors,…
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Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.
— Madeleine Albright
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The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very…
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Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood…
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He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but…
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The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry.…
— Kato
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When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even…
— Julio Iglesias
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The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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The best tribute we can pay Madiba is to ensure that our political debate focuses on issues of how best we can…
— Helen Zille
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The fool inherits, but the wise must get.
— William Cartwright
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The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft,…
— James Russell Lowell
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When a painter is working he is aware of the means which are available to him - these include his materials, the…
— John Berger
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