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Quote by Iris Murdoch
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly tak

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. – Iris Murdoch

Other quotes by Iris Murdoch

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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Marriage
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Iris Murdoch
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. – Iris Murdoch

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Survival
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Iris Murdoch
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Other Quotes from
Marriage
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Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? – Malcolm Turnbull

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Marriage

I think that, as with marriage, you just know when its time to have kids. – Ashley Judd

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Marriage

Ive always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage. – Stephen Harper

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Marriage

If your husband and a lawyer were drowning and you had to choose, would you go to lunch or to a movie? – Author Unknown

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Marriage

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Society

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. – John Foster Dulles

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