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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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Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
— Jimmy Buffett
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My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.
— LeBron James
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We also know that Iraq is harboring a terrorist network headed by a senior al Qaeda terrorist planner. This network runs a…
— George W. Bush
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Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in…
— Utah Phillips
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I'm a hard-mouthed north-eastern lad. That's me - the Eminem of Northeast England.
— Jamie Bell
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Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It’s where I walked. It’s where…
— LeBron James
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In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.
— LeBron James
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The available divorce data show that marital breakdown is now considerably more common in the Bible Belt than in the secular Northeast.…
— Joe Conason
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The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the opening of the north-flowing river’s delta, with Jerusalem’s answering…
— Chris Hadfield
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I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of…
— Jacques Pepin
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How can you live in the Northeast?
— Paul Simon
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A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are…
— Ezra Stiles
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