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Marriage Quotes
"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."
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"What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"
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"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership."
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"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land."
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"When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself."
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"My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started."
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"Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?"
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"Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity."
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"We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together."
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"If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist."
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"The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials."
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"I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily."
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"Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough."
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"I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month."
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"I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage."
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"Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy."
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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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"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."
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"The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so."
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"A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises."
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"Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners."
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"I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage."
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."
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"Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps."
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"In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy."
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"You will often be in despair. You will sometimes think it's the worst decision in your life. That's fine. That's not a sign your marriage has gone wrong. It's a sign that it's normal it's on track. And many of the hopes that took you into the marriage will have to die in order for the marriage to continue."
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"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."
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