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

Other quotes by Mary Douglas

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. – Mary Douglas

Category:
Change
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas

Category:
Jealousy
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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. – Mary Douglas

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Religion
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Other Quotes from
Marriage
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What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married. – Alain de Botton

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Marriage

Marriage? Its like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. – Francoise Sagan

Category:
Marriage

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue. – Malcolm Turnbull

Category:
Marriage

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. – Anne Taylor Fleming

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Marriage

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I never learned from a man who agreed with me. – Robert A. Heinlein

Category:
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. – Herman Melville

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Whats very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship. – Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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