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"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."
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"Apparently some people (who don't know history) seem to think that marriage 'always has been' exclusively between males and females - and that this modern inequality somehow justifies the enforced continuation of this inequality."

"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."

"It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one."

"When you marry you marry the known and unknown man or woman."

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences."
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."

"The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face."

"Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught."

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
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