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• Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

  John Stuart Mill

  Two, Giving, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.187, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

  Herman Kahn

  Important, Wheels, Helping

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.260, Lexington Books

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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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• 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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• The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.

  Jeff Bridges

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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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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• 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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• 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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• The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic.

  Truman Capote

  Character, Average, Years

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• My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Views, Achieve, Difficult

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Quentin Skinner, Russell Price (1988). “Machiavelli: The Prince”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• He looked at her. She was pretty still, with thick hair and soft eyes, and she moved so gracefully that it almost seemed as though she were gliding. He'd seen beautiful women before, though, women who caught his eye, but to his mind, they usually lacked the traits he found most desirable. Traits like intelligence, confidence, strength of spirit, passion, traits that inspired others to greatness, traits he aspired to himself.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Beautiful, Eye, Passion

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• Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

  Plotinus

  Beautiful, Ignorance, Self

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• To be gentle and kind, modest and truthful, to be full of faith and integrity, doing no wrong is of God; goodness sheds a halo of loveliness around every person who possesses it, making their countenances beam with light, and their society desirable because of its excellency. They are loved of God, of holy angels, and of all the good earth, while they are hated, envied, admired, and feared by the wicked.

  Brigham Young

  Integrity, Angel, Light

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.240

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• The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Kindness, Heart

  Dalai Lama (2005). “The World of Tibetan Buddhism: An Overview of Its Philosophy and Practice”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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