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The more desirable the merchandise, the more desirable it is to be shoplifted.


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LARRY TABB It is highly desirable that policy practice be formalized to the maximum possible extent,
WILLIAM POOLE Banning something is the easiest way to make it desirable.
TAPAN GHOSH It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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PLUTARCH It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors
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FRANK WHITTLE A friend in deed is desirable.
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BILL LEGGETT Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
MAX MCKEOWN Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
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MARGARET MITCHELL When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY That is creating a situation that is not desirable.
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PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
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ATIYYAH AL-ANSARIYYAH They take the locations that are desirable . . . that they can get.
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DANIEL O'MALLEY Getting anything changes it from being desirable to just being taken for granted.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
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you to have a h...
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CHRISTOPHER LANGAN Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
DAMIEN HIRST It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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JAVIER VIVEROS It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable
CHRISTINE FEEHAN It's desirable that foreign exchange rates reflect fundamentals,
HARUHIKO KURODA Efficient control over what is experienced is necessary to live a life that is desirable.
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WOODY ALLEN as I have always said, it is desirable for dollar-yen rates to trade in a stable manner.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Resorting to force is not desirable in the current situation, and would not solve the problems we ar...
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• spread positivity
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK I don't think it's normal, I don't think it's admirable, I don't think it's desirable.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER