“I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law.”
— Paul Martin
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“The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.”
— Ethan Hawke
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“Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?”
— Gary Becker
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“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.”
— Socrates
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“The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.”
— Al Goldstein
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“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.”
— Ava Gardner
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“I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.”
— Marc Chagall
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“We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.”
— Raquel Welch
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“You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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