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My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
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