Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.
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I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Marriage is socialism among two people.
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The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.
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In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.
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I think Liberty students ought to date a lot without commitment in mind. If you're thinking commitment - and you probably shouldn't until you're a senior - you don't want to start your marriage off under the constraints of poverty and schooling.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.
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I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.
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I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.
