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Tag Name "Desirable" (286)

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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
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Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen
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Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere, by force, with a persons decision to commit this act. The result is a far-reaching infantilization and dehumanization of the suicidal person.
Thomas Szasz
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It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.
Ye Xiaowen
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To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.
Tobsha Learner
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13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.
Zadie Smith
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If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
Tony Wilson
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
Umberto Eco
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London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.
Vestal McIntyre
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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
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Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.
Voltaire
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Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.
W. Clement Stone
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There are three motives for which we live we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. No one of these is better or holier than the other all are alike desirable, and no one of the three—body, mind, or soul—can live fully if either of the others is cut short of full life and expression.
Wallace D. Wattles
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I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!
Susan Sarandon
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter Lippmann
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Talks with terror cannot happen, but talks on terror are desirable.
Sushma Swaraj
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It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
Warsan Shire
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire / Before you know what is left to be desired / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.
T. S. Eliot
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The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.
William Godwin
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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
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Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.
William Joseph Burns
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One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.
William O. Douglas
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