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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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The statement "I am in pain" may be one piece of evidence for the conclusion that the speaker is in pain, but…
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Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest…
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There's an old saying that God made us in His image, and we've been trying to return the favor ever since. People…
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I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A…
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Social satire has been around since people have been around.
— David Walliams
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Since people, in a competitive or any other society, are by no means always just to each other, some regulation by the…
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I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go…
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are…
— Gail Collins
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Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
— Andy Warhol
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They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two…
— Ai Yazawa
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There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s…
— Cecelia Ahern
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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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