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This is not a question of one man, but of an institution that needs to be reformed.


Guido Tabellini

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RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's an opportunity to draw the entire community together. Not to focus on a man, but to focus on th...
JUDI HENSLEY To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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TRUMAN G. MADSEN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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LISA KLEYPAS Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST I believe that the fact that this is the work of God keeps this place going. The fact that this is n...
CARL BROWN Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
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SáNDOR MáRAI I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient instituti...
DOUGLAS JERROLD To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
MAE WEST A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
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ROALD DAHL Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
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MICHAEL ENDE Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; suc...
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DOUGLAS JERROLD The meaning of life is not a question to be answered, but an event to be experienced.
UNKNOWN So this is going to be drill!?
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ABDEL HALIM KHADDAM I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
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JOHN BREAUX One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the r...
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BERNIE SANDERS Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart...
GERMANY KENT Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
SOURCE UNKNOWN The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
KATHARINE HEPBURN Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
GROUCHO MARX Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?
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WILLIAM HAZLITT A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who d...
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ALBERT CAMUS It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity...
ALVEDA KING The incipient institution needs some stabilizing principle to stop its premature demise. That stabil...
MARY DOUGLAS And that is why I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good...
AYN RAND Our electoral system may not be reformed at that time (2007). This would raise questions on the cred...
JOSE ABUEVA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. MENCKEN Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that...
CHARLES INGLIS There is a beast in man that needs to be excersised, not exorcised.
ANTON LAVEY I don't believe that these victims were any less molested than the other victims. This is supposed t...
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD To me it's still an open question, but here's some evidence that warrants some serious consideration...
JEFF MELDRUM Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs n...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ch...
BERTRAND RUSSELL An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution...
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TIM NELSON One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can ...
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one’s duty to be a lover of evil or to...
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ORRIN HATCH [Some interest groups and Senate Democrats] would like nothing more than for you to take a litmus te...
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GREGG WARREN Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic instit...
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JOHN GREEN Death is tough for the people left behind on earth.
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C. JOYBELL C. Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
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