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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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Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
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If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and…
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their…
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic,…
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The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.
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People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they…
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In a sense the U.S. is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change…
— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
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Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see…
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The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and…
— Roger Smith
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What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management,…
— Henry Mintzberg
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I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.…
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