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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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"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
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"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."
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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."
"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
"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."
"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
"Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command."
"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."
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