#desirable

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

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Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#deserved #desirable #earned #hug #like

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#business #desirable #fewer #less #many

In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange. ↗

— William Odom

#asian #did #east #east asian #europe

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#always #appetite #been #conclude #digestion

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

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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

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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. ↗

— Mark Twain

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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm. ↗

— Xun Zi

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