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• Personally, I'd be delighted to live in a country where happily married gay couples had closets full of assault weapons.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Country, Gay, Assault Weapons

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• An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Independent, Intelligent

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

  William Faulkner

  Divorce, Men, Feet

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Husband, Father, Real

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• I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.

  Tennessee Williams

  Thinking, Laughing, Tears

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.154, New Directions Publishing

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• For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Workout, Crazy

  "Jennifer Aniston "feels great" about putting on weight but jokes about pregnancy rumours" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. November 13, 2014.

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• Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.

  Margaret Mead

  Daughter, Sex, Son

  "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, 1935.

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• By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.

  Edward Albee

  Thinking, Play, Curious

  "Conversations with Edward Albee". Book edited by Philip C. Kolin, 1988.

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• The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

  Phil Ochs

  Reality, Years, Umpires

  "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

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• At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

  Brian Eno

  Song, Party, Men

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.

  Douglas Coupland

  Shopping, Personality, Watches

  1991 Generation X,'M T V Not Bullets'.

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• It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.

  Harriet Lerner

  Fighting, Patterns, Painful

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• Marriage is the lightning rod that absorbs anxiety and stress from all other sources, past and present. When marriage has a firm foundation of solid friendship and mutual respect, it can tolerate a fair amount of raw emotion. A good fight can clear the air, and it's nice to know we can survive conflict and even learn from it. Many couples, however, get trapped in endless rounds of fighting and blaming that they don't know how to get out of. When fights go unchecked and unrepaired, they can eventually erode love and respect, which are the bedrock of any successful relationship.

  Harriet Lerner

  Nice, Stress, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 14, 2013

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• Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thouand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

  Sergey Brin

  Thinking, People, Effort

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• [Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love - and that it is a civil right.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sex, Gay, Thinking

  "Goodbye to Romance" by Rachel Shatto, www.curvemag.com. December 29, 2009.

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• I’m always looking to top the last match, I’m always looking to entertain the fans and steal the show. Before I always thought that it was a case of opportunities, but I’m learning that it’s all in my control and I just want to keep on doing what I’m doing by giving my best. I’ve got a couple more magical matches left in me and hopefully at some stage, I guess the biggest honour would be going into the TNA Hall of Fame.

  Gail Kim

  Opportunity, Giving, Want

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• I was in Japan a couple of months ago, I saw a preview for the movie Pearl Harbor. And they showed the Japanese airplanes coming in to bomb Pearl Harbor, and I applauded. Nobody else in the theater applauded.

  Bobby Fischer

  Airplane, Japan, Bombs

  Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July 6, 2001.

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• During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Real, Loss

  "Yep, Obama Said the N-Word. Here Are the Other Candid Things He Said" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. June 22, 2015.

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• I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.

  Carl Reiner

  War, Humorous, Army

  "Carl Reiner on writing a children's book, tweeting, and joking around with Mel Brooks". Interview with Katherine Brodsky, tv.avclub.com. June 23, 2015.

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• I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also believe that gay and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples, those who have been in long-term relationships, deserve to be treated respectfully, they deserve to have benefits.

  Dick Cheney

  Believe, Gay, Men

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you love someone, then your freedom is curtailed. If you love someone, you give up much of your privacy. If you love someone, then you are no longer merely one person but half of a couple. To think or behave any other way is to risk losing that love.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Love, Giving Up, Thinking

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Obsidian Butterfly: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.312, Penguin

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• Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Chocolate, Stronger, Littles

  Song: Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk, Album: Poses

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• People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Men, Blood

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• You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

  Tucker Max

  Cat, Night, Listening

  Tucker Max (2011). “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, p.219, Citadel

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