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Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
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Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
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Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.
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Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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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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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants 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 wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly: The Authorized Version (Pan Books, 1976) by Duncan Campbell -
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettuccine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccine restaurant in the first place.
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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
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Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.
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