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• Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

  Peter L. Berger

  Individual, Institutions, Procedures

  Peter L. Berger (1973). “Invitation to sociology: a humanistic perspective”, Overlook Pr

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• Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Jesus, Crumbling

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• Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself is surely the most desirable of houses. Our modern house with its cumbersome walls and its foundations planted deep in the ground is nothing better than a prison and more and more prison like does it become the longer we live there, and wear fetters of a association and sentiment.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, House, Mind

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• What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices of inspired prophets. The reason is that all change, in colliding with the inherited institutions of the past, is inevitably hard and laborious; consequently it only takes place in response to the demands of necessity. For change to be brought about it is not enough that it should be seen as desirable; it must be the product of changes within the whole network of diverse casual relationships which then determine the situation of man.

  Emile Durkheim

  Past, Men, Voice

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• By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Roots, Enemy

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Lectures, addresses”, p.986, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Gratitude, Prayer, Gods Will

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• If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Humility, Stills, Ifs

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• Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Existence, Customer Experience

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• Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

  Andre Gide

  Children, Parent, Would Be

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.293, Routledge

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• Society must cease to look upon 'progress' as something desirable. 'Eternal Progress' is a nonsensical myth. What must be implemented is not a 'steadily expanding economy', but a zero growth economy, a stable economy. Economic growth is not only unnecessary but ruinous.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Zero, Growth, Progress

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• Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.

  Chinua Achebe

  Character, Order, Facts

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• In the desert, water gives life, while in the ocean an island stands to give anchor. Opposites are desirable and necessary. Once again, you see the theme of taking away a precious element of the world or making it rare and precarious.

  Vera Nazarian

  Ocean, Islands, Anchors

  Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com

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• It's a pity if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Art, Chance, Fit

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• Let's show people how desirable it is to step it up and climb towards heaven.

  Adrian Grenier

  People, Heaven, Steps

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• Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

  Adrian Grenier

  Practice, Needs, Looks

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• When I became a judge, I stopped being a practicing attorney. And that was a big change in role.The role of a practicing attorney is to achieve a desirable result for the client in the particular case at hand. But a judge can't think that way. A judge can't have any agenda, a judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case and a judge certainly doesn't have a client.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Hands, Judging

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

  Frank Zappa

  People, Lifestyle

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui Magazine, April 1979.

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• Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Lucidity

  Yi-Fu Tuan (2000). “Escapism”, p.23, JHU Press

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• Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Best Effort, Goal, Ability

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving, Desire, Relief

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• He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Desire, Doe

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• Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

  Cornel West

  Order, Matter, Assuming

  Source: genius.com

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• Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

  Dalai Lama

  Love Is, World Religions, Essentials

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2013). “Kindness, Clarity, and Insight”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.

  John Flavel

  Distance, Soul, Christ

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• There's nothing like a deadline to get the old blood flowing. All the juices, really. It doesn't follow, if you think about it. You'd assume certain things ... certain activities ... would become unimportant. Certain betrayals would become unbearable. But they don't really. In fact, quite the opposite. Everything takes on a new light. The impossible becomes possible, desirable even. It's quite remarkable.

  Walter Wykes

  Betrayal, Thinking, Opposites

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