#desirable

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. ↗

— Frank Herbert

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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem. ↗

— Dillon Anderson

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

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It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

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