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“Marriage used to be a legal term. It denoted a partnership and property and protection from the Visigoths beyond the village walls. This was apparently not good enough for us, the modern married. We wanted it to be something else. We wanted to invest it with all of our hopes and all of our conceptions of passion and romance. And now that is what we have. A freighted, overburdened, gorgeous institution that is the devil and all to get right.”
― Wendy Plump, Vow: A Memoir of Marriage

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places,”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“My greatest teacher once told me,” said Yasujiro, “that a man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.”
― Anonymous