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1	[[AC:Fan Works]]
2	->'''Shinji:''' It's just that I'd repressed the memory as thoroughly as possible because I saw my mother die horribly when she tried to synch with it and succeeded a bit too well. Or so everyone thought; if I didn't hallucinate ''everything'' between seeing you go down to the Mass-Production Evas and waking up on the beach, she actually did it on purpose so that Unit-01 could become an eternal monument to mankind's existence… or something. I don't know all the details and I'm not sure I want to, especially why she found it necessary to make me watch.\
3	'''Asuka:''' Oh.\
4	'''Shinji:''' So, yeah, […] That's the woman my father is planning to cause total human extinction to reunite with. No accounting for taste, I suppose.\
5	'''Asuka:''' Guess not.
6	-->-- ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime''
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8	[[AC:Film -- Animated]]
9	->'''Victoria:''' Hildegard, what if Victor and I don't like each other?\
10	'''Maudeline:''' Hmpf! As if that has anything to do with [[ArrangedMarriage marriage]]. Do you suppose your father and I "like" each other?\
11	'''Victoria''': Surely you must, a little.\
12	'''Maudeline and Finnis:''' Of course not!
13	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride''
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15	[[AC:Literature]]
16	->"Mrs. Allen was one of that numerous class of females, whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them. She had neither beauty, genius, accomplishment, nor manner. The air of a gentlewoman, a great deal of quiet, inactive good temper, and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible, intelligent man like Mr. Allen."
17	-->-- ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey''
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19	[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
20	->''When it comes to affairs of the heart,\
21	There's no accounting for taste,\
22	Blonde or ginger, looker or minger,\
23	Let none of them go to waste!''
24	-->-- '''Brabbins & Fyffe''', ''Series/TheArmstrongAndMillerShow''
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26	->''Some couples always support each other, and some couples always challenge each other. But is one really better than the other?'' \
27	\
28	''Yes. Support is better. Way better''
29	-->-- '''Future Ted's''' take on this trope, ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', "The Exploding Meatball Sub"
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31	->'''Jackie:''' Ok, look, Steven, these last few weeks with you have been really dirty and really wrong.\
32	'''Hyde:''' Jackie, talking is for people who have something in common.\
33	''(they start making out)''
34	-->-- ''Series/{{That 70s Show}}''
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36	[[AC:Web Video]]
37	->''"I'm failing to see how this relationship came to this point--he clearly can't stand her."''
38	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', ''Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy''
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40	[[AC:Real Life]]
41	->''Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.''
42	-->--'''UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin'''

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