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About Max Siegel

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Max Siegel (born December 31, 1964) is an American corporate CEO, entertainment executive, attorney, and activist. He is the current Chief Executive Officer of USA Track & Field (USATF), the national governing body of Athletics in the United States. He is also the owner of Rev Racing, a development racing...

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

—Robert Anderson

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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

—Harlan Miller

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

—Prince Philip

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Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

—Billy Connolly

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