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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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Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science.
— Bruno Bettelheim
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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18…
— Erma Bombeck
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Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She…
— Chris Christie
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There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was…
— Christina Applegate
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Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.
— Charles E. McKenzie
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OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
— Bil Keane
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I believe the only people that should be around a child and raising a child are people who absolutely, 100 percent love…
— Angelina Jolie
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Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one…
— Patricia Heaton
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I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and…
— Carl B. Pratt
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Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I actually feel that women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn't complain. Consider all…
— Angelina Jolie
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