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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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The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for…
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Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work…
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The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a…
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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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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in…
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But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy…
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Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to…
— Tamar Myers
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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists
— Mark Twain
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
— Don Marquis
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There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.
— Robert Breault
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
— Lewis Mumford
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