"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

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“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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"It's just not sexy. It doesn't matter how cute the girl is… When I kiss somebody in life, I decide to kiss somebody in life. But when someone says "Do it, or…" And when you're kissing somebody, the wo…"

— James Marsters

Music1962

#life

"Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever. Not that the waiter was slow. Just that the move was…"

— Lee Child

Literature1954

#time

"I have long had a theory that the popularity of Christianity has always depended on its appeal to the sadism of its adherents. The exceptional should be crucified, saith Society; and somehow everyone …"

— Celia Green

Psychology1935

#science

"God created the world through an active speech. God's Word is not descriptive, it is creative. God speaks the worls is being...God's Word changes, it is effective, makes things happen...What God says,…"

— Robert Barron (bishop)

Religion1959

#education