Quote by Mary Douglas
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemera

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. – Mary Douglas

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Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. – Mary Douglas

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Equality
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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. – Mary Douglas

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Equality
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. – Mary Douglas

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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. – Homer

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Marriage

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. – Harold Nicolson

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Marriage

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic – another joke marriage. – Sophia Bush

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Marriage

To say I drank my way into marriage isnt much of an exaggeration, and its none at all to say I drank my way out of it. – Lawrence Block

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Marriage

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The way the night knows itself with the moon, be that way with me. Or, alternately translated, Union is a raging river running toward the sea. Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved, be like that to me. – Rumi

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