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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

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I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

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The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

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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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There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

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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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The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: December 28th, 1902

Died: June 28th, 2001

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