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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 George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

    Blue   Wife   Comedian  
  • Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

    Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
  • Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

    Giving   World   Opaque  
  • Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

    Perfect   World   Glamour  
  • The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

    Stamps   Impulse   Hard  
  • Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

  • The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

    Smart   Thinking   Skills  
  • Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

    Doctors   Pay   Pressure  
  • The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

  • The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

    Class   Cities   Middle  
  • Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

    Coffee   Mean   Cutting  
  • At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

    Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

    War   Reality   People  
    Virginia Postrel (2013). “The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

    Curves   People   Tails  
  • How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism-a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition?

    Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
  • Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it.

    Virginia Postrel (2009). “The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness”, p.4, Harper Collins
  • In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

    Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
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