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• Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

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• And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Confused, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.101, Scholastic UK

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• I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even?

  William Saroyan

  War, Coffee, Believe

  "Short Drive, Sweet Chariot". Book by William Saroyan, 1966.

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• But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.

  Mary Balogh

  Two, People, Feelings

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• If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspiration, Character, Giving

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• The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.375

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• The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and Prejudice. Vice is Error, Confusion, and false Reasoning; and all Truth is more or less opposite to it. Besides, Mathematical Studies may serve for a pleasant Entertainment for those Hours which young Men are apt to throw away upon their Vices; the Delightfulness of them being such as to make Solitude not only easy, but desirable.

  John Arbuthnot

  Passion, Science, Men

  Martin Strong, John Arbuthnot (1745). “An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford”, p.8

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• Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Design, Challenges

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• Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Conflict, Natural, Resolution

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.71, Courier Dover Publications

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• Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Smart, Hard Work

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• In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Daughter, Mother, Son

  "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

  Ordway Tead

  Leadership, Business, Long

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• Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole and what is good and desirable for an individual. That conflict can be found in global problems such as climate change, pollution, resource depletion, poverty, hunger, and overpopulation.

  Martin Nowak

  Profound, Challenges, Humanity

  Martin Nowak, Roger Highfield (2012). “SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts. So that, in after times, when the speculations of the present day shall have passed away, from a greater accumulation of information, the facts may be readily seized and converted to account.

  Henry De la Beche

  Distance, Science, Information

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 863), January 5, 2012.

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• There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Mean, Tolls, Roles

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• I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks

  Shelley Duvall

  Thinking, Long, Looks

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• I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!

  Susan Sarandon

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• Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Density, Culture, Manhattan

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• I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.... I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering... I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Engineering, Wings

  "One-on-one with Newt Gingrich". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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• I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that you look at yourself in the mirror. You feel less feminine, pretty or desirable, and it's not an easy thing to go through.

  Joan Lunden

  Mirrors, Hair, Sound

  "Joan Lunden reveals battle with breast cancer". www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  Damien Hirst

  Immortality, Immortal, Term

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• Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the office of Judges should be like the laws, which approach punishment not in a spirit of anger but in one of equity.

  Johannes Voet

  Lying, Anger, Law

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• The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.

  Robert Cialdini

  Yield, Finals, Opponents

  Robert B. Cialdini (1985). “Influence: Science and Practice”, Scott Foresman

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• Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Perspective, Islam, Democracy

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• In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

  Bonaventure

  Beautiful, Ladders, Saws

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