"Glamour is translucent â€” not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesnâ€™t give us a completely clear picture."

-- Virginia Postrel

#Giving Quotes #World Quotes #Opaque Quotes

“An idealistic lover is a blind lover, and therefore a true lover; a pragmatic lover is a sighted lover, and therefore a false lover.”
“My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.”
“When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. I'm from Houston, so naturally, everyone dropped the second syllable of your name and just put an "O" there.”
“Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.”
“The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence or defense; for the redress of grievances or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.”
“The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.104, Harvard University Press
“As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.”
“I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.”

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