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• There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.

  John Henry Newman

  Years, Treasure, Remuneration

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press (2009). “The Idea of a University”, p.99, Aeterna Press

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• It may be desirable to explain, that by the word operation, we mean any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things, be this relation of what kind it may. This is the most general definition, and would include all subjects in the universe.

  Ada Lovelace

  Mean, Two, May

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• Duty without love is deplorable.
  Duty with love is desirable.
  Love without duty is Divine.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love, Divine, Duty

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 04, 2016

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• For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

  Sallust

  Grief, Men, Hardship

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• It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.

  Gilbert F. White

  Simple, Survival, Environmental

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• At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But it will also need additional revenues. Should the government not receive them, we will all get punished with higher interest rates.

  George Soros

  Running, Government, Over You

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• The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few... Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.

  Ivan Illich

  Country, Goal, Mind

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• The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Knights, Together, Events

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• When someone new comes into your life and suddenly you feel more alive, more beautiful, more sexual, more creative, more desirable and more engaged; you feel that this new person is the key to those feelings. But actually, you have these qualities too. What you don't see and don't acknowledge in yourself, you project onto someone else. Carl Jung explored this very well. He called it projection.

  Gary Zukav

  Beautiful, Keys, Creative

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• There's nothing wrong with being a pretty girl, because you want to be, desirable. There's nothing wrong with that, but you should have a plan B even if that is getting pregnant by a rich dude.

  Pauly Shore

  Girl, Should Have, Want

  Source: www.bendsource.com

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• I suggest people simply start off meditation by practicing twice a day for 5 - 10 minutes, and explore what it's like to meditate. The stress reduction and mental peace starts to become a highly desirable state. After all, it's great to let go of the worries of life!

  Tim McCarthy

  Letting Go, Stress, Worry

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• London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Ideas, Space, People

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.

  Kether Donohue

  Nice, Typical, Actresses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Faithful, Degrees

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• Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

  Voltaire

  Common Sense, Interesting, Leader

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• The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.

  Martha Beck

  Love Is, Special, Quality

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• The pursuit of joy in God is not optional.
  It is not an 'extra' that a person might grow into after he comes to
  faith. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit your 'faith' cannot
  please God. It is not savng faith. Saving faith is the heartfelt
  conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is
  desirable.

  John Piper

  Heart, Joy, Saving

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• Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

  John W. Campbell

  Reality, Ideas, Chance

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• In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

  Paul Johnson

  Race, Long, Earth

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• The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in the world.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Eye, Men

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.525

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• I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore the audience. They have got used to the people that those actors really are.

  David Suchet

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

  Ye Xiaowen

  Buddhist, Helping, Affair

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• I might be old, but I'm still desirable.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Might, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

  Dogen

  Drinking, Thinking, Ideas

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