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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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A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the…
— Napoleon Hill
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Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship,…
— Bill Bradley
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The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no…
— Charles Mathias
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One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really…
— Katey Sagal
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I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce…
— Teju Cole
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Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the…
— Albert Pike
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For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
— Marc Chagall
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The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.
— Esther Williams
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This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.
— Norman Lamm
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My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.
— Charlie Chaplin
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