Conflict Resolution A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime "You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them." - Tim Robbins
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Conflict Resolution
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."
- Tim Robbins
Conflict Resolution
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words."
- S. I. Hayakawa
Conflict Resolution
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
- William James
Conflict Resolution
A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility."
- Leo Tolstoy
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."
- George Carlin
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving."
- Dalton Trumbo
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
- A. P. Herbert
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about."
- Sam Ewing
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
- George Bernard Shaw
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Keep cool; anger is not an argument."
- Daniel Webster
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping."
- Mignon McLaughlin
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it."
- Alain de Botton
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"I don't like yelling and fighting, and I can't quarrel."
- Grace Kelly
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"I didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV."
- George Lopez
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
- Michel de Montaigne
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions."
- E. T. Bell
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side."
- Baltasar Gracian
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument."
- Robert Half
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy."
- George Herbert
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci
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A Wedding is a Day, A Marriage is a Lifetime
"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest--never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership."
- Ann Landers
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