{"quotes":[{"text":"I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.","author":"Tim Fargo","tags":["ambition","ambitious","desirable","desire","desired","determination","determined","doggedness","fixated","fixed","letting-go","pursue","pursuit","stubborn","stubborness","tenacious","tenaciously","tenacity"],"id":22404,"author_id":"Tim+Fargo"},{"text":"The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.","author":"Christian D. Larson","tags":["compelling","desirable","force","power","produced","thought"],"id":93945,"author_id":"Christian+D.+Larson"},{"text":"Efficient control over what is experienced is necessary to live a life that is desirable.","author":"Steven Redhead","tags":["control","desirable","experience","life"],"id":108820,"author_id":"Steven+Redhead"},{"text":"While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["democracy","democratic","democratic-process","desirable","outcomes"],"id":124381,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"With his release imminent, Knight seems more unsettled than ever. He scratches furiously at his knees. Jail, he's realized, might not be all bad. There's routine and order in jail, and he's able to click into a survival mode that is not too dissimilar, in terms of steeliness of mental state, to the one he'd perfected during winters in the woods. 'I'm surrounded in here by less than desirable people,' he says, 'but at least I wasn't thrown into the waters of society and expected to swim.","author":"Michael Finkel","tags":["bad","desirable","expected","furiously","imminent","jail","mental-state","order","people","perfected","release","routine","society","steeliness","surrounded","survival-mode","swim","thrown","unsettled","waters","winters","woods"],"id":231900,"author_id":"Michael+Finkel"},{"text":"It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for that possession, the waste of which is called Dissipation. Unfortunately the excellent word Entropy, which Clausius has introduced in this connexion, is applied by him to the negative of the idea we most naturally wish to express. It would only confuse the student if we were to endeavour to invent another term for our purpose. But the necessity for some such term will be obvious from the beautiful examples which follow. And we take the liberty of using the term Entropy in this altered sense ... The entropy of the universe tends continually to zero.","author":"Peter Guthrie Tait","tags":["clausius","desirable","dissipation","entropy","physics","rudolf-clausius","rudolf-julius-emanuel-clausius","science","universe"],"id":301421,"author_id":"Peter+Guthrie+Tait"},{"text":"Choose a life format that is the most desirable to you.","author":"Steven Redhead","tags":["choice","desirable","life-philosophy"],"id":412346,"author_id":"Steven+Redhead"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}