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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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What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon…
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As many times as [HIV] changes its clothes, it's still wearing the same socks, and now our job is to make sure…
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Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat?
— Bobby Gould
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I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it…
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When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup…
— Jen Lancaster
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Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...
— Frances Hardinge
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Why are you still wearing...?" Aya began. "Oh, that's not smart plastic? You're really an ugly?" David rolled his eyes and Shay…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing…
— Ai Yazawa
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I was still wearing my shoes. The staff was paid to wash the sheets after every visit, and by the point we…
— Mira Grant
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The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in…
— Virginia Postrel
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Tell me please, who the fuck did you want me to be, and please I'm still wearing this miserable skin, and it's…
— Brian Wright
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You still wearing tight pants and vans it aint even cold niqqa take them gloves off yo hands got a style so…
— Unknown Author
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