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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 had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas,…
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You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the…
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Splatter the brain matter of my enemies, with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy
— Canibus
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Did you ever stop to thnk about all the people we kill? They're always people who tell us to live together in…
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Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,
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We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy…
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