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Virginia Postrel has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more…
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When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered,…
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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
— Gerry Cheevers
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to…
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The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's…
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In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor…
— Alexander Lukashenko
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The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby…
— Peter Singer
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I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.
— Bindi Irwin
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I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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