"Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply……" — Virginia Postrel
"Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths."
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80 Quotes by Virginia Postrel
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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…
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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…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating…
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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…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things…
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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…
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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…
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an…
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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…
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As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to…
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More Deaths Quotes
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
— Joseph Addison
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical…
— Annie Besant
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections,…
— William Jennings Bryan
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
— Julius Caesar
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill…
— Albert Camus
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No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
— Albert Camus
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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making…
— Albert Camus
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
— Charles Darwin
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Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressely for him or not, is supporting the trade…
— Philip Kapleau
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