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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'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and…
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There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and…
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you…
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas…
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Basically we get confused a bit about what retail is. It is really just buying things, putting them on a floor and…
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Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter…
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If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.
— Bill Simon
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The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped…
— Gene Hoffman
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The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight…
— John F. Kennedy
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A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically,…
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