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The mandatory character of schooling is rarely analyzed in the multitude of works dedicated to the study of the various ways to develop within children the desire to learn.

A chance to do as we please, especially to do as little hard work as possible, is a secret desire of almost everybody.

conscious desire

When he claims to desire eternal life, in reality man merely wishes to avoid a premature, violent or gruesome death.

A young woman most penitently confessed to a friend of mine that an unholy desire to read women's magazines was her besetting 'temptation'.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

A high household savings rate in Japan is attributed, among other things, to people's desire to save money to buy a home.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

I know you're at an age where sexual desire flourishes and you want to do 'you-know-what' with 'that' but... well, sit down there.

Uncontrolled, these forces may be dangerous and destructive, but once mastered they can be bent to man's will and desire.

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Justice is the constant and perpetual desire to give to each one that to which he is entitled. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of matters divine and human, and the comprehension of what is just and what is unjust.

1. Failure was proof the desire wasn't strong enough. / 2. It's weird how strong that desire is. / 3. It's desire that drives me.

What's your wish?

If you wish us to reserve an alternative room, please let us know immediately.

I sometimes wish I could live a quiet retired sort of life but I doubt I could stand it for more than a few days.

All you ever do is nitpick. I wish you could say something more constructive.

It's an American tradition to make a wish on your birthday.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

It seemed like a nice idea at the time, but I wish I hadn't done it.

I wish I'd kept up my Chinese. I need it for my job.

The music next door is very loud. I wish they would turn it down.

If you wish to be happy, learn to be content with your condition in life.

Make a wish.

No matter what your profession, or how happy you may be in it, there are moments when you wish you had chosen some other career.

I'm not rich, nor do I wish to be.

She has gone against her father's wish and sold their collection.

Have you seen a shooting star? So make a wish.

I never see a library without wishing I had time to go there and stay till I had read everything in it.

This is a good book for anyone wishing to learn English.

She sat next to him wishing she were somewhere else.

I love trying out new things, so I always buy products as soon as they hit the store shelves. Of course, half the time I end up wishing I hadn't.

I'm wishing for that.

In the end, one always ends up wishing to annihilate one's fellow man. Therein lies the sad fate of humanity.

Wishing you an enjoyable future.

Wishing is for those who can believe.

Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.

All right, said the man, "I don't believe this, but there's no harm in wishing. I wish to know who I am."

It is not good wishing.