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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

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Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.

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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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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler
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Born: December 28, 1902
Died: June 28, 2001 (aged 98)
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