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• Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, People, Good Relationship

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• Crikey means gee whiz, wow! Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building.

  Steve Irwin

  Mean, Sharks, Wow

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• I have a rule of thumb now and that's that somebody [she dates] has to have been married and they have to have had kids. Everything boils down to perspective. If your potential mate does not have the same perspective that you do then you're going to be lost.... If somebody has never been married, they don't know compromise ... [and] if they don't have children, they don't know the absolute self-sacrifice it takes and what it means to be a parent.

  Eva LaRue

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.

  China Mieville

  Beautiful, Hippie, Names

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• The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have.

  Larry Crabb

  Fashion, Husband, Commitment

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• I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

  Susan Kay

  Spiders, Has Beens

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• Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice, her petals remained closed to him...Flower and bird, two species never meant to mate. Yet at length the rose overcame her fear and from that single, forbidden union was born the red rose that Allah never intended the world to know.

  Susan Kay

  Flower, Night, Two

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• Marriage emerged some forty-five hundred years ago and evolved into a widespread and accepted institution that bonded families, maintained order, and created wealth. Unlike today, where many of us are searching for our romantic "soul mate," marriage was originally more about economics than deep emotion.

  Robi Ludwig

  Order, Years, Soul

  Robi Ludwig, Matt Birkbeck (2006). “'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Love came when you weren't looking, except in the case of millions who found mates on Match.com, but, hey. It sounded good.

  Kristan Higgins

  Hey, Found, Cases

  Kristan Higgins (2013). “The Best Man”, p.19, HQN Books

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• Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for president. That title belongs to Victoria Woodhull, who ran for president in 1872. Her running mate was a young, scrappy John McCain.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, President, Titles

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• Let nature decide. When a cow is biologically ready to have sex relations, she mates with the nearest well-hung bull. When a flower is ready to scatter its seed, it pollinates. It's the same way throughout nature - except with man, who tries to postpone consummation of his sex drive, unsuccessfully for the most part, for six or eight years after he reaches puberty.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Flower, Men

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• When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away.

  David Eagleman

  Block, Feelings, Brain

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• In the busy city, dying might be resented as a breach of good taste, and the body hastily dispatched to the undertaker and the crematorium; but in Lost Haven, where a man's mates had to turn out and dig his grave, it was an occasion shared by the whole community.

  Kylie Tennant

  Men, Cities, Community

  Kylie Tennant (1968). “Lost Haven”

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• Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.

  George Herbert

  Foxes, Girdles

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.337

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• Having a mate has given me that feeling of safety.

  Lisa Bonet

  Safety, Feelings, Given

  "Why Lisa Bonet Is Nervous About Her Return to TV". Interview with Liza Hamm, people.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I watch films. I play the guitar: me and some mates - I wouldnt dignify it with the term band - get together and play.

  Stephen Mangan

  Guitar, Play, Together

  "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

  Ashley Jensen

  People, Saws, Actresses

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• Australia was once a leader in taking global warming seriously. The former PM [Kevin Rudd] called it 'greatest moral challenge of our time'. But in the past couple of years the national consensus has been eroded and Australians are being encouraged by the polluters and their mates in Parliament to forget it was ever mentioned. It's heartbreaking.

  Tim Winton

  Couple, Past, Australia

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Quality, Needs, Might

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)”, p.457, e-artnow

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• When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

  Fernando Torres

  Team, Self, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I drink mate every day during training camp, and just in general. It's packed full of vitamins and nutrients and a lot of B vitamins that you would normally get from meat. The caffeine in there affects me less and it's more like a stimulant. I can drink more of it and it's hydrating as well. It's one of my favorite drinks, especially on a cold morning.

  Chris Algieri

  Morning, Training, Meat

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

  Douglas Wilder

  Running, Team, Names

  "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.

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• If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008.

  Douglas Wilder

  Running, Mistake, Serious

  "Obama-clinton Ticket for 2012". www.politico.com. August 02, 2010.

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• Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Men

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.317

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• It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mean, Laughing, Doe

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