"There are some desires that are not desirable." — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
• The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least… — David Brainerd
• The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing… — Jeff Bridges
• I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the… — Buzz Aldrin
• You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to… — Kim Cattrall
• Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! — Lawrence Durrell
• A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective… — Koichiro Matsuura
• Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements.… — Maxwell Maltz
• If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think… — William Graham Sumner
• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. — Abraham Lincoln

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