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Mortimer Adler Quotes
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Famous Mortimer Adler Quotations
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Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001) was an American Aristotelian philosopher and author. He was born into a Jewish family in New York City, the son of an immigrant jewelry salesman. He dropped out of school at 14 years of age and went to work as a secretary and copy boy at the New York Sun, hoping to become a journalist. After a year, he took night classes at Columbia University to improve his writing
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- Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. Mortimer Adler »
- Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Mortimer Adler »
- 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. Mortimer Adler »
- 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. Mortimer Adler »
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