Desirable Quotes - Page 14

• The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

  Tara Brach

  Intimacy, Strategy, Packages

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The weaknesses and biases of the international mechanisms of accountability make it seem desirable to extend the domain of accountability by empowering domestic courts to act as agents of the world legal system. Even if there is no consistent application of Universal Jurisdiction, it still leads those who might be prosecuted to alter their travel plans to avoid even the complication of waiting for a complaint to be dismissed.

  Richard A. Falk

  Waiting, Accountability, Empowering

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.

  W. Clement Stone

  Fun, Goal, Effort

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Negative, Positive Mental Attitude

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

  Robert H. Frank

  Links, Outcomes, Behavior

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is much more difficult to get implemented politically what might be desirable economically. Even if you came out with an economic argument in favor of equalization - and I think there are arguments on both sides - I would still come down in favour of some sort of a scheme on strict economic grounds.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Favors, Might

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.

  Michael Kenna

  Needs, Outcomes, Surprise

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

  Paul Newman

  Thinking, Individual, Thinker

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• I think Donald Trump thinks of Putin as being a strong person, and I think he thinks of himself as being a very strong person. But I don't think in any way that he thinks of the Putin government as a desirable model.

  Newt Gingrich

  Strong, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

  Aldous Huxley

  Two, Desire, Tasks

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.157, Transaction Publishers

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• We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Communication, Humanity, Understanding

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.25, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

  Aldous Huxley

  Aldous Huxley (1961). “Selected Essays”

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• Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Heart, Happy Life, Interesting

  William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Happiness”, p.16, Read Books Ltd

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• A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

  Richard de Bury

  Wealth And Happiness, Library, Zealous

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.

  Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

  Government, Should Have, Would Be

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• A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sex, Spring, Flower

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.13, Vintage

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• Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.

  Noel Tichy

  Change, People, Imagination

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• Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades

  Martin Wolf

  Animal, Space, Diversity

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• I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are born. Is an existence without desire very desirable? And is the poverty of desire better than rank poverty itself?

  Vikas Swarup

  Desire, Poverty, Wonder

  Vikas Swarup (2008). “Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful.

  Robert Brunner

  Hero, Successful, Technology

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• The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Beautiful, Country, Travel

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “A World of Strangers”, p.45, A&C Black

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• Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the red squirrel and dormouse. It is not realistic, practical or even desirable to completely eradicate grey squirrels, but we must control them effectively.

  Jim Knight

  Real, Squirrels, People

  "Grey squirrels targeted" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2006.

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• It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted.

  Isaac Asimov

  Emotional, World Government, Law

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• The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists... Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as 'the white race' is destroyed - not 'deconstructed' but destroyed.

  Noel Ignatiev

  Believe, Race, White

  "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.

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• Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Fall, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.584, Courier Corporation

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