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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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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
— Emile M. Cioran
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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When we dwell on the past, we tend to want to live there. When we dream of the future, we want to…
— Erwin McManus
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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have…
— Eugene Ionesco
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Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the…
— Sven Birkerts
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We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house. When we get there, we dream of something else,
— Rob Machado
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Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as…
— Breyten Breytenbach
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If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
— Lee Strasberg
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I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about,…
— Eugene Ionesco
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
— Willa Cather
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Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality.…
— Menachem Begin
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