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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 feel very fortunate, I've been exposed to a lot of different cultures. If I wasn't from a multi-ethnic background, I wouldn't…
— Navi Rawat
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Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's…
— Wesley Clark
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You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.
— Emir Kusturica
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I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and…
— June Jordan
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I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the…
— Trevor Phillips
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We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60…
— Jonathan Sacks
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In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense…
— Virginia Postrel
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
— Carlos Fuentes
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If we come to power we will abolish the multi-ethnic society.
— Unknown Author
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Toronto is a big, sophisticated city and multi-ethnic, and people love coffee here.
— John Williams
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