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• Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

  Mohnish Pabrai

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• It’s a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn’t fit into this very thin slice of what’s desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they’re doing.

  Esperanza Spalding

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

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• The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

  Frank Gaffney

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• It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.

  Bernhard von Bulow

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• I don’t know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I’m on my way, I don’t think I’m terribly attractive, but I’m comfortable with my looks.

  Shelley Duvall

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• When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  Xunzi

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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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• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

  Henry David Thoreau

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• There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

  Henry David Thoreau

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