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• I believe that style is the only real luxury,that is really desirable

  Giorgio Armani

  Real, Believe, Luxury

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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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• 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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• Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.

  Juvenal

  Heart, Blessing, Suffering

  "The Satires".

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• There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Dungeons, Enough, Social Contract

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• Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.

  Gerry McGovern

  Beautiful, Fashion, Mean

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• Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

  Mitch Daniels

  Eye, Loss, Events

  Mitch Daniels' keynote speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee at Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner in Washington, D.C., www.americanrhetoric.com. February 11, 2011.

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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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• Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Character, Government

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.45, Routledge

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• We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. It is on that side of life that it is desirable to put the emphasis at the present time. If that side be strengthened, the other side will take care of itself.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Character, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human.

  Primo Levi

  Giving, Holocaust, Relief

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• Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

  E. B. White

  Two, Self, Strange

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• Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gold, Commodity

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So, if you're lacking, start squatting!

  Ronnie Coleman

  Bodybuilding, Men, Attention

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• What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

  J. C. Ryle

  Littles, Sin, Harm

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• Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Brain, Statistics, Logic

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Complete Science Fiction Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Illustrated): A Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, The Gods of Mars, Beyond Thirty, The Warlord of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, Pirates of Venus, The Monster Men and many more”, p.611, e-artnow

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• A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Men, Enemy

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• Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Arriving, Illusion, Future Time

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• I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

  Stella McCartney

  Beautiful, Mother, Fashion

  "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'". Interview With Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.

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

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Design, Challenges

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