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  • A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature. -- Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects. -- Leon Kass
  • As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. -- Fredrik Bajer
  • I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. -- Marissa Mayer
  • As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. -- Evgeny Morozov
  • Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. -- Bertrand Russell
  • To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them. -- Maajid Nawaz
  • One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution. -- Adrian Cronauer
  • I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view. -- John Caudwell
  • 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
  • If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted. -- Larry McMurtry
  • There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India is no longer seen as an undesirable place to work or pursue research. -- Shashi Tharoor
  • The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment. -- Gary Bauer
  • In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange. -- William Odom
  • My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. -- Ivan Illich
  • 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
  • It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion. -- Ivan Pavlov
  • We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten. -- Henry Petroski
  • We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view. -- Edward Abbey
  • When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will. -- William James
  • Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome. -- Mohammad Khatami
  • After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable. -- Candace Bushnell
  • Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable. -- John Dewey
  • We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons. -- Mark Twain
  • It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process. -- David Souter
  • Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so. -- Cyril Connolly
  • Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable. -- Mary McCarthy
  • It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true -- Bertrand Russell
  • The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones. -- William Walker Atkinson
  • My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people. -- Kanye West
  • To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors. -- Donald L. Hicks
  • An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. -- Neville Goddard
  • When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out. -- Paulo Coelho
  • What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.] -- Ovid
  • An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. -- John Dewey
  • Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable. -- Ayn Rand
  • Being a scrub was undesirable and hard work, living in crowded conditions with no privacy and just being one of many. Undistinguishable. -- Maria V. Snyder
  • If you live far away from a person you no longer want to date just let them know that they are geographically undesirable. -- Dane Cook
  • ...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness. -- Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing. -- Harry Markowitz
  • Why pay for an undesirable outcome with someone else? For the same money, you could have paid me to stay at home and do nothing. -- Jarod Kintz
  • Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. -- Plutarch
  • The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement -- John Dewey
  • In everything, no matter what it may be, uniformity is undesirable. Leaving something incomplete makes it interesting, and gives one the feeling that there is room for growth -- Yoshida Kenko
  • Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them. -- Richard Davenport-Hines
  • Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment. -- Paul Krugman
  • Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose. -- Abraham Maslow
  • A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example. -- Agnes Repplier
  • We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements. -- David Willetts
  • Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats. -- Archibald Marwizi
  • America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians. -- Frank Zappa
  • The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide. -- Michael Sandel
  • I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy. -- Gregory Bateson
  • It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV. -- Randall Wright
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