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• Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

  Arthur Miller

  Agony, Hysteria, Differences

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• Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

  Chris Hemsworth

  Dad, Father, Tasks

  "Thor star Chris Hemsworth's wife Elsa Pataky confirms the couple are expecting twins" by Carl Greenwood, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2014.

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• Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• I like to be at home because I just travel so much. I have four dogs, golden retrievers.

  Denise Richards

  Dog, Travel, Golden Retrievers

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• When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Father, Coming Home

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• Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Gay, Rights

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• We go hard or we go home we gon' do this all night long! #werk

  Madonna Ciccone

  Makeup, Night, Long

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• I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.

  Jodie Foster

  Mom, Makeup, Night

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• Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Charity

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Country, Struggle

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 3.

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• Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Gambling, Games

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• Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body's deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body's superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Moving, Unity

  Henri Nouwen (2010). “The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom”, p.19, Image

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• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Men, Contemplation, Highest

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• There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
  Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Delightful

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• The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Family, Government, Community

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• If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Family, Children, Circles

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Past, Ideas

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1987). “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912”, p.364, University of Chicago Press

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• In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  Samuel Johnson

  Travel, Men, Tourism

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 302 (17 April 1778)

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• There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Air, Smell, People

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

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• If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can reconcile us with our fate so that one can enjoy living,-then it is verily the enjoyment of the mathematical sciences and astronomy.

  Johannes Kepler

  Fate, Men, Mind

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• The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.

  Angelina Jolie

  Baby, Morning, Jobs

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• From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God."

  Robert Burns

  Kings, Honesty, Spring

  'The Cotter's Saturday Night' (1786) st. 19.

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• When one of your children tells a lie, be honest with him; tell him that you have told hundreds of them yourself. Tell him it is not the best way; that you have tried it. Tell him as the man did in Maine when his boy left home: "John, honesty is the best policy; I have tried both."

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Honesty, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.210, Library of Alexandria

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• It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Emotions Feelings, Sentiments, Exalted

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Land, Wife, Navy

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