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• I believe that style is the only real luxury,that is really desirable

  Giorgio Armani

  Real, Believe, Luxury

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• When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Real, Men, Sight

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• The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.

  Wendell Berry

  Past, Hatred, Innovation

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• The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

  Fannie Flagg

  Lines, Behavior, Courtesy

  Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!”, Random House LLC

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• Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.

  A. S. Byatt

  Falling In Love, Desire, Plot

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• Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that is similar to that of patriarchal straight men.

  Bell Hooks

  Gay, Men, Thinking

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• The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best.

  Jessica Valenti

  Girl, Sexy, Color

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• There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and genuflecting before their masters.

  Larry Niven

  Men, Animal, Space

  Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Michael Flynn (2002). “Fallen Angels”, p.232, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• He was visited on a lunar basis by these great unspecific waves of horniness, whereby all women within a certain age group and figure envelope became immediately and impossibly desirable. He emerged from these spells with eyeballs still oscillating and a wish that his neck could rotate through the full 360 degrees.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Wish, Age, Groups

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.22, Penguin

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• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Respect, Law

  Civil Disobedience (1849)

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• You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

  Kim Cattrall

  Careers, People, Age

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• We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Balance, Littles, Way

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• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Cheating, Children

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.52, Vintage

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• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

  Walter Lippmann

  Understanding, Imaginative, Ideals

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.392, Harvard University Press

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• The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

  Neville Marriner

  Awful, Becoming, Conductor

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• Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

  Bertrand Russell

  Discipline, Mind, Willpower

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.26, Routledge

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• First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

  Cliff Stearns

  Rights, Second Amendment, Generations

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• I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.

  Kristen Stewart

  Stars, Actors, Want

  "Is Hollywood turning on Angelina Jolie?". www.today.com. November 11, 2009.

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• Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Natural, States, Humans

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Philosopher, Should

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.183, Penguin

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• Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Technology, People

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Business, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

  James A. Baldwin

  Liberty, Affliction, Crutches

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