All of my friends at school grew up and settled down
And they mortgaged up their life
One thing's not said too much, but I think it's true
They just get married cause there's nothing else to do.

The Rolling Stones

Sittin' on a Fence

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Topic

Settling Marriage

Speaker

The Rolling Stones

Source

Sittin' on a Fence

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Rock band

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Richards, Keith and Mick Jagger. Sittin' on a Fence. Performed by Twice as Much. Immediate Records, 1966.

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Another quote from the 1960s

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

Consciencism

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Topic
Revolution

Author

Kwame Nkrumah
Source
Consciencism
Genre
Philosophical literature Political literature
Language
English
Time
1964 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Nkrumah, Kwame. Consciencism. Monthly Review Press, 1964, ch. 2.

Another quote about Marriage

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elective Affinities

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Topic
Marriage
Speaker
Mittler

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source
Elective Affinities
Medium
Novel
Language
German
Time
1808 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Die Wahlvenwandtschaften [Elective Affinities]. Tubingen: J. G. Cottaische Buchhandlung, 1809, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities, translated by David Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 9.