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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
 
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Suggest Revision: In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
 
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Suggest Revision: In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
 
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Suggest Revision: Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
 
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