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desirable
«It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.»
Author: Donal Henahan
| Keywords:
argued, desirable, For Better or Worse, Gutenberg, musicians, printed, prisoners, scores
«Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable.»
Author: Ordway Tead
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
activity, come to, cooperate, cooperated, cooperating, desirable, goal, influencing, leadership, most desirable
«Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
desirable, fruit, labor, most desirable, positive, property
«Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence»
«No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
calamity, desirable, disappointed, every year, experiment, liberator, mysterious, on the contrary, seeker, trickery, truer
«It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
cultivate, desirable
«No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Thinking
| Keywords:
desirable, exclusion, no doubt
«Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Desire,
Fear
| Keywords:
affliction, crutch, crutches, desirable, divest, divested, frightening, released
«I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Admiration
| Keywords:
desirable, enjoyed, fatherland, Fatherlands, Friends for, possessions, securely, taking possession