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«A good education should leave much to be desired»
Author: Alan Gregg | About: Education | Keywords: desired
«Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.»
Author: John Kotter | About: Leadership, Vision | Keywords: desired, outcome
«A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place. The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.»
«All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired, although not in the hour or in the measure, or the very thing which they ask. Yet they will obtain something greater and more glorious than they had dared to ask.»
«By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.»
«Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.»
«Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.»
«All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.»
«Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.»
«As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.»

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