"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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"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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"Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared."
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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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