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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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We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace…
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There is no such thing as an achieved liberty: like electricity, there can be no substantial storage and it must be generated…
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It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is…
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OBLIVION, n. Cold storage for high hopes. A place where ambitious authors meet their works without pride and their betters without envy.…
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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of…
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We each have moments of spiritual power, moments of inspiration and revelation. We must sink them deep into the chambers of our…
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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who…
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A library is thought in cold storage.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
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