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"Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage."
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"No marriage can stand up under the strain of incessant association."
"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."
"You contribute much to your marriage by the wise, thrifty, diligent management and oversight of your part of the household budget."
"Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there."
"I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot."
"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."
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"Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button."
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"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product."
"A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today."
"The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters."
"It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."
"A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction."
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
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