Undesirable Quotes
74 quotes by 68 authors
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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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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…
— Grover Cleveland
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
— William James
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Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
— Leon Kass
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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…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true
— Bertrand Russell
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising…
— Paul Krugman
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We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.
— Mark Twain
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Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of…
— Howard Zinn
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Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to…
— Debbie Ford
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My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.
— Kanye West
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The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.
— William Walker Atkinson
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Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.
— Mohammad Khatami
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We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.
— Fredrik Bajer
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There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker…
— Gregory Bateson
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We need only take our heads out of the sand to see clearly that interventionism not only has failed to provide the promised something-for-nothing, but…
— Leonard Read
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not…
— Larry McMurtry
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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
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In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between…
— Walter Lang
Who Wrote These Undesirable Quotes
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