Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.


Mae West

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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
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Marriage is a great institution.
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Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.
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Marriage is an institution and that's where a couple finish up.
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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
JAMES GRAHAM
I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.
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God created the institution of marriage for mutual happiness and pleasure.
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Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family.
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The 'institution of marriage' is being threatened - by people getting married? Huh?
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Marriage is a natural and beautiful institution between a man and a woman. It's wrong for judges and...
RANDY THOMASSON
This is not a question of one man, but of an institution that needs to be reformed.
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The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
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I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
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I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right.
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An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West
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I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
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An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
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I think it has the potential to make a great institution like LANL even greater,
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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Democracy is a fragile institution.
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I'm forming a charitable institution for education.
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