#desirable

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#crutch #desirable #divested #frightening #more

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#desirable #make #music #people

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences. ↗

— Guy Burgess

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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. ↗

— Donna Karan

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Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. ↗

— Leon Kass

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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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I think she's afraid to even hug me now. It's my fault, but I miss it, Andrew. I miss it so much it aches sometimes, you know?' I do know. I do know, I want to tell him, but I let him talk. And he does, with a gut-wrenching honesty that tears at my heart. 'I want to be held. Is that so wrong? I want to be held, and stroked. I want to know that someone loves me. I want to feel it on my skin.' He looks at the ceiling and exhales, then meets my eyes again. 'But nobody touches me anymore. Not even when I have a fever. Mom just hands me a thermometer now.' He drops his eyes and his ears redden. 'Even when you kiss me, you don't touch me. It's like I'm a leper or something. I can hardly keep my hands off of you, but it's not the same for you, is it? ↗

— J.H. Trumble

#loneliness #sensory-deprivation #touch-me #undesirable #word-of-your-body

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 relatives today. ↗

— Walter Lang

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