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• It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

  Arthur Balfour

  Truth, Telling The Truth, Ifs

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• Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Future, Individual, Mankind

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• Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

  Johann Most

  Men, Thinking, Doe

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• Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

  J. C. Ryle

  Sin, Pleasant, Seems

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.259, Whitaker House

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• Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

  Bruce Lee

  Mind, Technique, Disease

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.196, Tuttle Publishing

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• I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Desire, Popularity

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• Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it’s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don’t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.

  Mark Suster

  Stress, Sacrifice, Careers

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• Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

  Rumi

  Hate, Mean, Reality

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• I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Believe, Talent, Born

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• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

  Laozi

  Men, Would Be, Delight

  Laozi (2015). “Tao Te Ching”, p.31, Booklassic

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• Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

  Max McKeown

  Mean, Brilliant, Strategy

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• Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.

  David Buss

  Easy

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• If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

  Joseph Hume

  Law, Twelve, Events

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• Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

  Carolyn Hax

  Wisdom, Real, Opportunity

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Advice Columnist Tackles Your Problems". Live Discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. August 7, 2009.

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• Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

  William Vickrey

  Jobs, Employment, Hours

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• Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property, I wish to assert it. I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated. She believes that co-operation would entirely supplant competition; I hold that competition in one form or another will always exist, and that it is highly desirable it should.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  War, Believe, Missing

  "In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation". Voltairine de Cleyre's Address in Philadelphia, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. December 16, 1893.

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• An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

  Neville Goddard

  Imagination, Purpose, Undesirable

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• The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Race, Waste, Causes

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• In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

  Alfred Marshall

  Purpose, Use, May

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

  Alfred Marshall

  Want, Wealth, Humans

  Alfred Marshall (2009). “Principles of Economics: Unabridged Eighth Edition”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

  James R Newman

  Knowledge, Math, Talking

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1200, Рипол Классик

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• The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

  John Stuart Mill

  People, Desire, Produce

  1863 Utilitarianism, ch.4.

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• Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Teacher, Mistake, People

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• It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

  Cass Sunstein

  Climate, Aids, Accomplished

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