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• When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

  Peter De Vries

  Broken Heart, Thinking, Broken Promises

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

  Ben Jonson

  House, Faces, Careful

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• I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Lying, Science, Night

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• My yearn for home is broadened
  Patriotism expanded
  By callings from beyond
  
  So I pack my things
  Nothing precious
  All things sacred

  Alanis Morissette

  Travel, Calling, Sacred

  Song: Citizen Of The Planet, Album: Flavors of Entanglement, 2008

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• News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work... when they're thinking... when they're laughing... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact.
  The unique potential - and duty - of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Encouragement, Unique, Thinking

  Rupert Murdoch's Speech on Carbon Neutrality, www.theaustralian.com.au. May 10, 2007.

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• It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

  Harold S. Kushner

  School, Voice, People

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• [In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

  James Dyson

  Learning, Science, Broken

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• (On winning the 800 meters in front of the home fans) I was really excited to come back here. Of course you are always a little nervous because you never know how the race is going to unfold, plus it is the first one of the season as well. I was really excited to come out and perform today. I give special thanks to Mario Sategna and The University of Texas for all of their support.

  Leonel Manzano

  Athlete, Winning, Race

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• (On returning to Austin to run at his collegiate stadium) It is almost like coming home with the crowd, the people, and it just brings it home for me. For me, it is a very special place, it is great energy, and again I always seem to run very well here. So I love coming back.

  Leonel Manzano

  Running, Athlete, People

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• Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.

  Walter Johnson

  Baseball, Running, Player

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• Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  House

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• Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who believe that every word in the Bible must be literally true, whatever such a claim might mean.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Believe, Mean, Science

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Past, Wells, Bosoms

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.588, Simon and Schuster

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• A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Dwelling, Space, Retreat

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• The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Prayer, Motherhood, Zion

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• The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Biblical, Men

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• I have an amazing mother who's a real tough cookie. She taught me not to get emotional about [sexism in Hollywood], just be really practical and objective. Later, in the privacy of my own home, maybe I'll bawl or break some dishes, but you just have to keep going. It's not about fighting, it's about educating.

  Zoe Saldana

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• James Wilkie is so conscious of the time we spend together. I try to be home to tuck him in at least four nights a week, and if I'm not, he's not letting me get away with anything. The other night I was sitting with him on the steps before Matthew and I went out to the theater, and he looked at me and said, `Mama, this has got to stop. Go upstairs and take that dress off.'

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Mom, Mother, Night

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

  Wendell Willkie

  War, Fighting, Thoughtful

  Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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• One of the things which make any company successful, in particular the Home Depot, was that we understood and catered to the customer. If it didn't sell, it didn't make a difference what we thought or our research told us. They told us if it was successful by buying it or not.

  Bernard Marcus

  Educational, Successful, Differences

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• A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Numbers, Victory

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [8]

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• Oh! men and brethren, what would this heart feel if I could but believe that there were some among you who would go home and pray for a revival men whose faith is large enough, and their love fiery enough to lead them from this moment to exercise unceasing intercessions that God would appear among us and do wondrous things here, as in the times of former generations.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Believe, Heart

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1859 & 1860: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.528, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Illegal immigrants should be required to return to their home country.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Return, Immigration

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• Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they have the right to demand that their father or their other extended family members be allowed to come if they don't otherwise meet the standard.

  Jeff Sessions

  Country, Father, Mean

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• You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start waving a carrot such as American citizenship without securing the borders, that number [of undocumented immigrants] that we have today I believe will double or triple.

  Lou Barletta

  Believe, Talking, Numbers

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