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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
Anthony Trollope
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths:.
Will Durant
Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.
Kōki Hirota
They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.
William F. Buckley
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
Michel de Montaigne
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
John Henry Newman
The supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number-for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs-jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.
Milton Friedman
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Economists have never allowed their analysis to be influenced by psychologists of their time, but have always framed for themselves such assumptions about psychical processes as they have thought it desirable to make.
Joseph Schumpeter
My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism.
Aldous Huxley
No matter how deeply wedded one may be to the free enterprise system (and I, for one, am wedded for life), one has to accept the need for positive government; one has to consider government action on a sizable scale as desirable rather than as a necessary evil.
Peter Drucker
I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
Pierre Trudeau
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.
Abraham Lincoln
Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spot.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, - but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.
John Maynard Keynes
Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.
Meg Cabot
You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.
Plum Sykes
Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either.
Rob Thurman
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
After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.
Candace Bushnell
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Donna Karan
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
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