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• It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

  Colin Wilson

  Loss, Boredom, Feelings

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• Education is identical with helping the child realize his potentialities. The opposite of education is manipulation, which is based on the absence of faith in the growth of potentialities and the connection that a child will be right only if the adults put into him what is desirable and suppress what seems to be undesirable.

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Opposites, Growth

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• After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

  Candace Bushnell

  Men, Ifs, Desirable

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• It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

  Grover Cleveland

  Memories, Quality, Immigration

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• When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

  William James

  Inspiration, Action, Emotion

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• Being a scrub was undesirable and hard work, living in crowded conditions with no privacy and just being one of many. Undistinguishable.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hard Work, Just Being, Privacy

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.193, Harlequin

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• well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable... you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents

  Dave Pelzer

  Mother, Home, Men

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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, Awakened

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• I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Thinking, Supposing That

  Sceptical Essays (1928) "On the Value of Scepticism"

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• I do not regard the rise of woman as a bad sign. Rather do I fancy that her traditional subordination was itself an artificial and undesirable condition based on Oriental influences. Our virile Teutonic ancestors did not think their wives unworthy to follow them into battle, or scorn to dream of winged Valkyries bearing them to Valhalla.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dream, Women, Thinking

  H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, James Turner (1976). “Selected Letters 1934-1937”, Arkham House Publishers

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• Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

  Plutarch

  Grief, Evil, Feelings

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• We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

  Edward Abbey

  Views, Elements, Point Of View

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Barriers, Intercourse

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Vanity, Attachment

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.

  Rachel Carson

  Weed, Attitude, Differences

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

  David Souter

  Political, Impossible, Process

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• The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Teacher, America

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• Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.

  Shelley E. Taylor

  Exercise, Practice, Two

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• Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Moving, Mean

  Howard Zinn (2009). “Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

  Agnes Repplier

  Years, Example, Construction

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.96, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
  [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

  Ovid

  Pleasure, Attractive, Unlawful

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• As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Mother, Baby

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• The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reality, Goal, World

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.69, Soft Skull Press

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• Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rights, Two, Agents

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “African and European Addresses”, p.182, tredition

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• PLEASURE and pain are undoubtedly the ultimate objects of the calculus of economics. To satisfy our wants to the utmost with the least effort - to procure the greatest amount of what is desirable at the expense of the least that is undesirable - in other words, to maximize pleasure, is the problem of economics.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Pain, Effort, Want

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.44

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