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164 wordies list
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(n): a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
(n): any strong feeling
(n): any object of warm affection or devotion
(n): the focus of cognitions or feelings
(n): a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
(n): a person who loves someone or is loved by someone
(n): a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
(n): a desire for sexual intimacy
(n): a score of zero in tennis or squash
(n): a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
(n): sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
(n): activities associated with sexual intercourse
(v): have a great affection or liking for
(v): get pleasure from
(v): find enjoyable or agreeable
(v): be enamored or in love with
(v): have a great affection or liking for
(v): have sexual intercourse with
(v): engage in sexual intercourse
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See How 8-year-old Kids Describe Love.
"...Love all things--not because it is your duty to do so, but because all things are worthy of your love. Hate nothing. Fear nothing. Have absolute faith. Whoso will do this is wise; he is more than wise--he is happy."
--Concluding paragraph: Man's Moral Nature, An Essay by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D.
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
-Charles Bukowski
...Consider the word "love". It has many meanings which we recognize as soon as we consider the difference between romantic love and conjugal love, the difference between the love that parents readily bestow upon their children and the love that children slowly develop for their parents. All these meanings of the word — all these kinds of love — have something in common. All are related aspects of a single, very large idea — the idea of love. But as most people employ the word in ordinary speech, they have only a small part of this idea in mind; and when young people use it they seldom have in mind the same part that older people have. Few who use the word ever have the whole idea in mind, for it takes a lifetime of experience and thought to comprehend it fully...
--excerpt from "What is an Idea", 1958, by Mortimer Adler
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen.
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