"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
-Mortimer Adler
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"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.“
-Mortimer Adler
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"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
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"Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity."
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"Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship."
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"One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian."
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"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."
-Henri Nouwen
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
-Marlene Dietrich
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
-C. S. Lewis
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-Henry David Thoreau
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