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Mary Douglas

"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."

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"Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker."

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"The real reason a husband and wife always fight is because they always focus on the ugliness in each other and have forgotten to focus on the beauties that attracted them at first."

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"You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her."

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"I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married."

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"I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman."

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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."

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"Marriage is not 'I', its 'We'."

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"We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise."

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"I thought it was love. No, it wasn't. It was marriage."

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"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."

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"The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization."
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"Hierarchy works well in a stable environment."
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"What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other."
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"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
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"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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