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“Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish.”

Knows Believe Mean Certain Cities Quality Desirable Vibrancy

Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.”

World Mean Ends Crazy Aspect Expected Boundaries The End Of The Day Frightening Desirable

Book:Girl in a Band

Source: Girl in a Band

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.”

Mean Littles Art Matter Character House Quality Advice Projects Art Is Regard Size Chickens Desirable Cathedrals Money Matters

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932

“The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.”

Mean Ends Used Desire Justify Desirable Ends Justify The Means

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.”

Mean Dignity Leisure Things In Life Modest Desirable

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn't absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.”