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Definitions
Etymologies
- Middle English desiren, from Old French desirer, from Latin dēsīderāre : dē-, de- + sīdus, sīder-, star.
Examples
“The most powerful and universal of all our desires is the desire of food, and of those things, such as clothing, houses, etc., which are immediately necessary to relieve us from the pains of hunger and cold.”
“After the desire of food, the most powerful and general of our desires is the passion between the sexes, taken in an enlarged sense.”
“Or, if you will, the sum of his desires is his soul.”
“(Although I have become convinced that much, beyond basic desires, is going on.)”
“The internet has made available all types of sick and demented images that feed certain desires that would otherwise lay dormant in a person who is prone to becoming a sex offender.”
“What it desires is a healthy industrial, business and intellectual individualism, a free and open competition in which the best is always bound to come to the surface.”
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“But remember, acknowledging petty desires is not the same as being petty.”
““And between these two desires is just where the soul of the man is manifest,” she went on.”
“This entails making right choices between short-term desires and long-term needs, including the greater societal good.”
“Mr. Zuckerberg says he can head off the ill effects of an IPO by assembling a management team tough enough to resist shareholders' short-term desires.”
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Relationship's
Everyone goes through a relationship in their lives, at moments this could be the best thing that could've ever happened. The next you wonder why did you let it happen..
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