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• I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

  Ethan Suplee

  Hippie, Parent, Manhattan

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

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• They're drinkin' home brew from a wooden cup. The folks were dancin' there got all shook up.

  Chuck Berry

  Beer, Cups, Folks

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• I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.

  Cary Middlecoff

  Dog, Golf, Thinking

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• Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious conditions of home life-all this you must not take to yourself as a matter of course. In gratitude for your good fortune, you must remember in return some sacrifice of your own life for another life.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Helping Others

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• We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

  Francis of Assisi

  Children, Devil, Saint

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• Sometimes it is harder for us to smile at those who live with us, the immediate members of our families, than it is to smile at those who are not so close to us. Let us never forget: love begins at home.

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Saint, Never Forget

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• The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and stepfather; they were like, If you are going to do this, we'd rather you did this with us.

  Matt Damon

  Mother, Weed, Marijuana

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• We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

  Alex Steffen

  Reality, Political, India

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• If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

  Barack Obama

  Healing, School, Broken

  "Obama Says He, Too, Is a Poverty Fighter". Speech at the Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus, Washington, DC, www.washingtonpost.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Together, Poverty, Break

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.387, Delphi Classics

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• Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Kindness, Rejection

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

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• Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

  Hank Aaron

  Hair, Long, Roger

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• Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Ocean, Science, Glasses

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• My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Mean, Kids, Eye

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• My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'

  Trey Parker

  Girlfriend, People, House

  "Missionary Position: The Mormon Musical". Interview with Jesse Green, www.elle.com. February 24, 2011.

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• Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Night, Class, Cafes

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.

  Jackie Kay

  Death, Land, Dying

  Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road”, p.106, Pan Macmillan

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• Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Death, Adventure

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

  Ross Perot

  Funny, Stupid, Dumb

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• While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

  Martial

  Sarcastic, Sleep, Night

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• Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

  August Strindberg

  Family, Wisdom, Children

  1886 The Son of a Servant.

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• Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities.

  Malcolm X

  White, America, Racism

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.383, Ballantine Books

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• The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Discovery, Years

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.26, Penguin

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• A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Looks, Matter

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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