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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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Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.
— Confucius
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I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in…
— Napoleon Hill
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history…
— Charlton Heston
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Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.
— Ronald Reagan
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A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
— Charles Darwin
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A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're…
— Winston Churchill
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Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
— Alan Moore
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A house built on greed cannot long endure.
— Edward Abbey
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