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• Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

  John Wayne

  Women, Long, Want

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• I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

  Ugo Betti

  Family, Thinking, Parent

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

  Mother Teresa

  Family, Thinking, Suffering

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Family, Success

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.64, Bantam

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• I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Family, Beautiful

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

  Joyce Brothers

  Life, Family, Happiness

  "Three Hundred and Twenty-Five Prompts for Personal Journals" by James A. Senn, (p. 44), 1995.

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• Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we forgive them, we must leave them free to respond to our good news however they are inclined. If the response is not what we hoped for, we can go home and enjoy our own healing in private.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Healing, Mean

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• I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar.

  Bob Lemon

  Funny, Baseball, Games

  "Passage: Bob Lemon, 79". www.wired.com. January 13, 2000.

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• Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happiness, Heart, Care

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.991, Delphi Classics

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• He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Wealth

  1778 Remark,17 Apr. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

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• When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.

  William Steig

  Happiness, Iron, Magic

  William Steig (1969). “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble”

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• Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

  E. B. White

  Happiness, People

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

  Will Durant

  Love, Motivational, Faith

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• Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either.
  Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present
  Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
  "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

  RuPaul

  Art, Humor, Men

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• We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Strong Women, Believe, People

  "A Mme. Curie From The Bronx" by Elizabeth Stone, www.nytimes.com. 1978.

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• My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son.

  Conrad Veidt

  Jealousy, Mother, Brother

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• Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home.

  Eric Sevareid

  Knowledge, Guy, Ordinary

  Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”

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• I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

  Tom Freston

  Kids, Learning, Mtv

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• A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Learning, School, Color

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• We are in this life as it were in another man's house.... In heaven is our home, in the world is our Inn: do not so entertain thyself in the Inn of this world for a day as to have thy mind withdrawn from longing after thy heavenly home.

  Gerhard

  Life, Men, Heaven

  "Meditations", XXXVIII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 440-455), 1922.

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• This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Spiritual, Body

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• This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

  William Mountford

  Life, Earth, Apprenticeship

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.76

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• Now everyday ain't gonna be no picnic
  Love ain't no walk in the park
  All you can do is make the best of it now
  Can't be afraid of the dark
  Just know that you're not in this thing alone
  There's always a place in me that you can call home.

  Cheryl Cole

  Life, Dark, Everyday

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• I love Love - though he has wings,
  And like light can flee,
  But above all other things,
  Spirit, I love thee -
  Thou art love and life! Oh come,
  Make once more my heart thy home.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Art, Light

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• ~My favorite thing about my son is that he comes home from school and the clothes go flying! Like, clothes off, right down to the undies.~

  Kate Hudson

  School, Son, Parenting

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