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And when a desire is strong enough it can overwhelm such flimsy stuff as facts and truth.
Such a desire is hardly ludicrous and cannot be diminished by the City of Chicago, or by the opinion of The New York Times.
To say that he doesn't have a desire is ridiculous – to say that he can't overcome that desire by the reality that's just not going to happen [is another]." Thi sprompted a scathing response from Abbott's former chief of staff, Peta Credlin, who did not mince her words on Sky News last night: I think that's absolute rubbish.
According to Bermúdez, "the content of a desire is given by the state of affairs that serves as its satisfaction-condition, and a state of affairs serves as the satisfaction-condition of a desire if its being the case would bring about (in the right way) the cessation of the behaviour to which that desire gave rise".
Perhaps a desire is undermined by being past, as Parfit has claimed (compare Suits 2001).
A desire is non-basic if one's having it does depend on one's having such further thought.
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AGGRESSION is a particle, desire is a wave.
Being the "first responder" to a human desire is incredibly valuable.
In this sense, A Streetcar Named Desire is a test case.
Desire "is a source of suffering, pain and hatred".
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