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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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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me…
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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs,…
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
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We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the…
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Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used…
— Mario Puzo
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is…
— Nikola Tesla
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Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.
— Chaka Fattah
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I went back to work right away [after prison]. I was very lucky — a friend of mine created a job for…
— Piper Kerman
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The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives…
— Wendell Berry
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Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful,…
— Richard Bach
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I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and…
— Darlene Zschech
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