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...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Beautiful, Slavery, Administration

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.16, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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It is indeed paradoxical that an industry which epitomizes all that is new and up-to-date at the same time harbours some of the oldest and least desirable attributes of work in manufacturing industry.

Peter Dicken

Harbour, Attributes, Paradoxical

Peter Dicken (1998). “Global Shift: Transforming the World Economy”, SAGE Publications Limited

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Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.

Koki Hirota

Development, Territory, Investment

"British Relations with China". Book by Irving Sigmund Friedman, p.138, 1940.

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When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.

Jimmy Evans

Romance, Spouse, Communicate

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All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

George Whitefield

Heaven, Temptation, Affliction

George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.758

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The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.

Mohammed Emami-Kashani

Country, Islamic, Outcomes

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Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a 'neat' technology or some 'cool' product or, sometimes, just good, solid engineering. Nope. All of those are desirable (and solid engineering is a must), but there is much more to a successful product than that: understanding how the product is to be used, design, engineering, positioning, marketing, branding-all matter. It requires designing the Total User Experience.

Donald A. Norman

Believe, Successful, Technology

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Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

Samuel Johnson

Distance, Imagination, Misery

Samuel Johnson (1999). “Rasselas”, p.12, Wordsworth Editions

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The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.

Kim Paffenroth

Intelligent, Ghouls, Zombie

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It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

Edward Gibbon

History, Age, Might

Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.186

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The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

Anthony Albanese

Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.

Tim Worstall

Jobs, People, Lobbying

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I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces. They are all pedestrian-friendly with shops, entertainment, restaurants and pubs within easy walking distance.

Norman Foster

Distance, Space, Generosity

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Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.

Seamus Heaney

Country, Mean, Home

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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

Anatole France

Girl, Regret, Past

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Sick is a relative concept. We're all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves symptoms of sickness. You have to look at the context within which these actions are performed.

Jo Nesbo

Sick, Degrees, Looks

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I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable.

Virginie Despentes

Virginie Despentes (2010). “King Kong Theory”, p.3, Profile Books

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Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.

Daniel Yankelovich

Country, Views, People

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Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.

Andrew Davidson

Girl, Cake, Age

Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.96, Canongate Books

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Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Half, Busy, Praise

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Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

Saint John Chrysostom

Evil, Scary, Temptation

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Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Work, Unemployment

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Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

Benjamin Franklin

Men, Purpose, Wealth

Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.238

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Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished.
...penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Florida, Rights, Expression

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No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

John Mortimer

Beauty, Lonely, Class

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