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• Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be, let me tell you. Honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  Larry Gelbart

  Funny, Witty, Divorce

  "Fictional character: Maj. Frank Burns". TV Series "M*A*S*H", 1972-1983.

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• Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it.

  Morton Hunt

  Positive, Moving On, Break Up

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• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  Washington Irving

  Grieving, Funeral, Bereavement

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.270

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• I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

  Beth Henley

  Wretchedness, My Own

  "Expressing 'the Misery and Confusion Truthfully'". Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, American Drama, Volume 14, No. 1 (p. 87), Winter 2005.

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• Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Marriage, Sympathy, Divorce

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.122, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.

  Suze Orman

  Half, Married, Window

  "Baby boomers or bums?" by Helyn Trickey, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2006.

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• When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

  Nicole Richie

  Mom, Dad, Leaving

  "Lionel Richie and Daughter Nicole on Fame, Drugs and Divorce". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, May 21, 2004.

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• Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

  Larry Gelbart

  Divorce, Causes, Chiefs

  "M*A*S*H. Season 3. Bulletin Board". TV Series,

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• Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Divorce, Vow

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• The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Karma, Thinking, Imagination

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

  Danica McKellar

  Pain, Divorce, Sound

  "Danica McKellar Compares Divorce to a Death in the Family" by Marla Lehner, people.com. June 8, 2012.

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• Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Leadership, Technique, Ethics

  James MacGregor Burns (1978). “Leadership”, Harpercollins

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• A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Divorce, Expression, Personality

  Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press

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• Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

  Joan Rivers

  Breakup, Divorce, Insightful

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

  Bob Hastings

  Positive, Regret, Divorce

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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

  Couple, Divorce, Men

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

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• The happiest time of anyone's life is just after the first divorce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Divorce, Firsts, Life Is

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• In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

  Ruth Gordon

  Divorce, Men, Our Family

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• The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension, dread, phobia, and so on. This kind of psychological fear is always of something that might happen, not of something that is happening now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fear, Worry, Anxiety

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.43, New World Library

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• My mom and my real father divorced before I was one. My mom and my stepfather divorced when I was in high school. Then she fell in love with a guy, and the guy died. That was a rough time. She has handled adversity well. That's where I got my work ethic. So my mother's where I got my love of music, but my father's where I got my athletic ability. And my hair loss. And my love of women.

  Kenny Chesney

  Mom, Mother, Real

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• Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Lying, Fire

  John Hagee's "The Fish Gate" sermon, September 2, 2007.

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• Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

  Josei Toda

  Philosophy, Practice, Games

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.

  Janet Morris

  Writing, Reality, Thinking

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• I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem - and eating some of it doesn't directly take food out of the mouths of starving people - but it is, to me, a symbol and a symptom of the basic irrationality of a food system that's divorced from human needs. Therefore, using less meat can be an important way to take responsibility. Making conscious choices about what we eat, based on what the earth can sustain and what our bodies need, can help remind us that our whole society must begin to balance sustainable production with human need.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Responsibility, Vegetarianism, People

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Interview with Steve Keull and Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

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