Quote by Mortimer Adler
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodie

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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Friendship
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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. – Mortimer Adler

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Education
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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. – Mortimer Adler

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Faith
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Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. – Erma Bombeck

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. – Edward Everett

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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. – Edgar W. Howe

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Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? – Erich Fromm

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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. – Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, November 19, 1751

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Its so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think thats what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. – Alice Walker

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. – Angela Carter