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Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the...

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The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today,...

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In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me ha...

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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe n...

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A man goes away from his home and it is in him to do it. He lies in strange beds in the dark, and th...

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It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was c...

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He had a little single-story house, three bedrooms, a full bathroom and a half bathroom, a combined ...

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This, it occurred to me, was the deeper meaning in the mournful merriment I had been part of that da...

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Rod DreherThe Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl

I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am gratefu...

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Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and ...

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If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from...

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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it...

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It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we coul...

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All I was doing was trying to get home from work.

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in t...

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Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

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Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this charact...

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Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict...

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It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part ...

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Salman RushdieImaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad telev...

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter ho...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

The first thing I did when I got inside was turn on the kitchen light. Then I moved to the table, pu...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, w...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with ano...

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It's things like this makes a ship seem like home. Help you forget what a load of tedious old shit l...

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Scott LynchRed Seas Under Red Skies

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M...

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I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my paren...

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Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard seaso...

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I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I ...

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Sherwood AndersonDeath in the Woods and Other Stories

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mi...

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The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home throu...

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It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived ec...

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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal...

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A journey is a dismal thing when there can be no homecoming.

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Stanisław LemThe Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men...

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Home is where they want you to stay longer

He will be with his friends, and that always feels like coming home.

Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place whe...

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Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said h...

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The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a na...

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There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with th...

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I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when...

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Mother seemed happiest when making and tending home, the sewing machine whistling and the Mixmaster ...

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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever...

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Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd When I enter my home, Many homes seem to be waiting...

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Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a biparti...

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If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the o...

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I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg...

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So Merlyn sent you to me," said the badger, "to finish your education. Well, I can only teach you tw...

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Corus lay on the southern bank of the Oloron River, towers glinting in the sun. The homes of wealthy...

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Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against ...

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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside...

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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a......

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It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has h...

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The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere after...

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You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, ...

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But I am convinced that those Jews who stand aside today with a malicious smile and with their hands...

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She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a hel...

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All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; ...

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Thomas HardyTess of the D'Urbervilles

Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past And each heart is whispering "H...

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Peace and rest at length have comeAll the day's long toil is past,And each heart is whispering, 'Hom...

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Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “...

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Pride avarice and envy are in every home.

Although both home and mental illness are complex, modern ideas, we have fallen into the habit of us...

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Thomas SzaszCruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunte...

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You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back...

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There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life ...

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Thomas WolfeYou Can't Go Home Again

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water...

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I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward A...

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From the windows, through the fur of snow, the landscape became more melancholy when the sun success...

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I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down t...

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...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it...

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But can't you even imagine what it must feel like to have a true home? I don't mean heaven. I mean a...

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I lived for 15 years in Los Angeles, and I still can't believe that the handsomest man in the world,...

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Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin ...

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Where's your home, then?" asked the Snork Maiden."Nowhere" said Snufkin a little sadly, "or everywhe...

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If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a ho...

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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing pat...

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You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a...

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You shall not go down good twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed ...

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Ursula K. Le GuinThe Dispossessed

This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger long...

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I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what al...

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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of gl...

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V. S. NaipaulA Way in the World

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the...

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So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leav...

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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of E...

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I never worry about being driven to drink I just worry about being driven home.

The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, a...

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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain su...

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