“The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable...” — Gore Vidal Quote

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

I can understand companionship.

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.