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«So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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administration, affections, beating, belonging, considers, desirable, exchange, heart failure, hopeless, imprudence, indulgence, indulgences, kindest, owner, regulated, the Master, toil
«The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.»
Author: Jeff Foxworthy
| About:
Funny
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designate, designated, designated driver, designates, desirable, driver, drop, drop off, fun, house, job, most desirable, program, programmed, sucked, suck in, suck up, The Night
«The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.»
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
| Keywords:
competing, demonstrably, desirable, Economic reform, effectual, idealism, idealist, impracticable, objectionable, offered, pointing, pointing out, political program, program, successfully
«Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
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cathedral, desirable, regard, The Cathedral
«The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.»
Author: Nadine Gordimer
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abstraction, Another Country, Beautiful Country, bottles, coca, Coca Cola, cola, desirable, does not exist, embarrassing, grubby, pamphlet, pamphlets, smells, tourist
«Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is morally desirable. It only means that society does not have the moral right to interfere»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| About:
Suicide
| Keywords:
desirable, fundamental, human right, interfere, morally, Moral right, suicide
«Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; / The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.»
«Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
activities, compulsion, compulsions, consists, desirable, discipline, external, habits, in his right mind, in their right minds, lead, most desirable, most undesirable, spontaneously, undesirable
«There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
charm, charmed, desirable, Forbade, forbidden, forbidding, makes, most desirable, unspeakably