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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value hom...

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If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can ...

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We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declarin...

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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of h...

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When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk t...

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I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of na...

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To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than no...

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More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send ...

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The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along ...

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The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along ...

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has bro...

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Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant the...

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She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

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Jonathan FranzenThe Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

What lived on-in me- was the discomfort of how completely I'd outgrown the novel I'd once been so ha...

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Jonathan FranzenThe Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in th...

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One can build a perfect home, but not live in it.

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

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We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyon...

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

It will no longer be necessary to leave one's own home in order to find work in the surrounding dist...

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My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking ...

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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have h...

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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family...

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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Biju stepped out of the airport into the Calcutta night, warm, mammalian. His feet sank into dust wi...

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In high school I had a boyfriend who was super into rap, so I was into Too $hort and Wu-Tang for a l...

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I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to h...

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If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Be...

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No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there th...

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

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L. Frank BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz

It's funny, leaving a place, ain't it?" he said. "You never do know when you'll get back.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd...

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With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the fut...

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I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, fam...

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I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, ...

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I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a ki...

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I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, ...

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Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and sc...

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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with th...

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Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...

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Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous...

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Louise ErdrichThe Master Butchers Singing Club

The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the intelligent and well-ordered ...

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I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being...

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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was...

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Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

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Madeleine L'EngleMeet the Austins

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just an...

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The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough.Actually, I know different. And it'...

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I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always ma...

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If you live close to an International Rescue Committee office in the United States, find out how you...

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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it,...

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Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to.

(...) everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

Our herd may roam, but we all know where is home.

Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all,...

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The food and drink that goes along with football is one of the best things: hamburgers, hotdogs, chi...

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If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't r...

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A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home,...

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Mark TwainPudd'nhead Wilson

You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel ...

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‎What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We shoul...

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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Listen, whatever you see and love—that’s where you are.

I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes ...

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Mary OliverLong Life: Essays and Other Writings

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his...

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The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast t...

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Matthew ArnoldDover Beach and Other Poems

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and ...

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The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned...

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Maya AngelouAll God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

...one can never leave home...one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's s...

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Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America’s great novel that ‘You Can’t Go Home Again.’ I enjoyed ...

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Maya AngelouLetter to My Daughter

I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fea...

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Maya AngelouLetter to My Daughter

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family...

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But there is no Messiah of Sitka. Landsman has no home, no future, no fate but Bina. The land that h...

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Michael ChabonThe Yiddish Policemen's Union

I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to so...

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Michael ChabonThe Yiddish Policemen's Union

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt an...

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Michael ShaaraThe Killer Angels

I enjoy writing, I enjoy my house, my family and, more than anything I enjoy the feeling of seeing e...

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Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your di...

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Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the ear...

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The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But th...

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown ...

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Mitch AlbomFor One More Day

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of ...

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'Get along, go along' is not an inspirational philosophy, and only God knows how much moral cowardic...

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