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Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.


Mortimer Adler

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FELIX ADLER Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, ...
RENATA ADLER Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
FREDA ADLER The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those t...
FREDA ADLER Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but ...
FREDA ADLER That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the h...
FREDA ADLER Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest goo...
FELIX ADLER The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real lif...
FELIX ADLER No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal ...
FELIX ADLER The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest ...
FELIX ADLER Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of th...
FELIX ADLER Love of country is like love of woman--he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good...
FELIX ADLER Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about. Copyright doesn't protect ideas,...
ALLAN ADLER Cases like this hopefully will clarify what copyright is all about.
ALLAN ADLER This category is fraught with issues as to whether publishers can even say go ahead and use them bec...
ALLAN ADLER They think they're being generous, but the burden is on the author and publisher. If it was fair use...
ALLAN ADLER In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U....
ALLAN ADLER The role that publishers play in terms of helping to put together the product in a way that has mark...
ALLAN ADLER When one looks at the results so far for Stephen King, it is something of a wash, ... He simply has ...
ALLAN ADLER The fact that we filed suit shows how important the issue is to us. It may be unwise to make any sig...
ALLAN ADLER So I think that some of the fears that people have posed about what this type of publication directl...
ALLAN ADLER The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold descript...
FREDA ADLER It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply...
RENATA ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest go...
FELIX ADLER That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the he...
FREDA ADLER Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, o...
RENATA ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
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