"In the long term, it is desirable that……" — Paul Johnson
"In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet."
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39 Quotes by Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson has 39 quotes on this site.
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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
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To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our…
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A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
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This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and…
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Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from…
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I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to.…
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Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
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When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
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Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action…
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested…
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
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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…
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I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the…
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You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to…
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only…
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective…
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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements.…
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If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think…
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