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Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

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I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

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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.

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Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.

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The country's honor must be upheld at home and abroad.

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The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

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O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

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And what kind of habitation pleases God? What must our natures be like before he can feel at home within us? He asks nothing but a pure heart and a single mind. He asks no rich paneling, no rugs from the Orient, no art treasures from afar. He desires but sincerity, transparency, humility, and love. He will see to the rest.

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Whether it is under the guise of survival and self-defence or directly expressed through dominion and greed, the failure to recognize the common humanity shared by us all lies at the heart of our difficulties. To overcome it, we should begin to develop, from the level of the individual through that of society to the world at large, what I call a sense of universal responsibility; a deep respect for every living being who lives on this one small planet and calls it home.

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When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

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Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

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Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

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A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

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There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

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Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.

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If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

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