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Quote by Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in lov

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch

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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. – Iris Murdoch

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Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. Im glad I was disabused. – Barry Hannah

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For the life of me, I dont understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities. – Dianne Feinstein

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Its about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. – Alan Keyes

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Marriage is a risk I think its a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit. – Cate Blanchett

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Imagination is the true magic carpet. – Norman Vincent Peale

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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. – Freeman Dyson

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