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

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933). Nigel Rees, in his Quote ... Unquote Newsletter, has found this joke appearing earlier in the cartoon "Pop" in 1921: "woman: 'You say what you like, Pop! Marriage is a jolly good institution!' POP: 'Yes! But who wants to live in an institution?"

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• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Peace, Destiny

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• Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

  Louis Sullivan

  Unique, People, Architecture

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• I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.

  Roger Babson

  Christian, Mother, Country

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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• We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

  Emilio Aguinaldo

  Inspirational, Freedom, Moving

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• Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life Is, Window, Great Gatsby Book

  The Great Gatsby ch. 1 (1925)

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• To all those broken or hopeless, I have learned this: Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story. The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. The ones that came, and the ones that left. They all taught you. Don't think for a moment that any of it was random. There are no oversights with God. Only perfectly crafted chapters in each unique journey.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Hurt, Grateful, Unique

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Integrity, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Penguin

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• I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, Phones, Ends

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• You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Country, Believe, Home

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• For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Divorce, Vacation

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• As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Inspiration, Hero

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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• Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

  Jasper Fforde

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Heart, Grace

  David Steindl-Rast (1984). “Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer: An Approach to Life in Fullness”, p.12, Paulist Press

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• It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

  Cameron Diaz

  Nice, Crazy, Boys

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• Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live alone, find their own rhythms, date a variety of people, go into therapy, develop new friends and interests, learn how to live with and care for themselves.

  Harville Hendrix

  Should Have, People, Done

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• People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Believe, People, Miserable

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• The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lonely, Loneliness, Companionship

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• Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Car, Doubt, Worst

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.53, Macmillan

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• Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  College, Married, Loses

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.62, Random House

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• When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Sleep, Bed, Argument

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• It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.

  Phil McGraw

  Being Single, Sick, Healthy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Sexy, Mean, Want

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