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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've never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful -…
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I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
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For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed…
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I will put my Butkus (Award) in storage. I will put my Alamo Bowl MVP trophy in storage. Jerseys, anything Penn State,…
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I'm into everything. My iPod is very eclectic - if you kept it on shuffle, you'd be amazed. For example, I was…
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The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the…
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I have the largest collection of Hulk memorabilia in the world - everything from toilet paper, wallpaper, bicycles - all boxed up…
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I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.
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Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's…
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I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the…
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Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much…
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