Sentence examples for only desires from inspiring English sources

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Heaven not only "desires righteousness and abominates unrighteousness" but also metes out reward and punishment accordingly.

All of this serves not only as a suggestion of how deeply the erotic regions of our brains are etched during our youngest years, but also as a reminder that even in the realm of sex, where conception and the survival of the species depend on our drives being fairly straightforward, things can get out of whack: our main — and for some our only desires may veer far from the standard.

This example can be handled by egocentric preferentialism, which says that only desires that make essential reference to the self can advance our welfare when fulfilled (Overvold 1980).

For parallel reasons, some theorists have noted that concentration on only desires as the focal point of autonomy is overly narrow, as people can (fail to) exhibit self-government relative to a wide range of personal characteristics, such as values, physical traits, relations to others, and so on (see Double 1992, 66).

However, Socrates' attribution to the soul of all and only desires, emotions and beliefs of reason (to use the Republic framework) is actually quite compatible with the view that the soul is responsible for all the life-activities organisms engage in, including, of course, the desires (etc). of what in the Republic framework is the non-rational soul.

Not only desires for physical healing, as Bartimaeus asked for (and as many ask for today) but also the hope for change, for growth, for a fuller life.

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"You only desire what you cannot get," he says.

"Our only desire was to see them succeed".

"For lovers, between desire and the end of the world, there is only desire.

Both played at L.S.U., and through their experiences it became his only desired destination.

It is heartening to hear that money is not the only desired luxury.

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