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• That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.

  John Newcombe

  Years, Great Year, Wimbledon

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• But whatever the era, whatever the times, one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first. You must read to your children and you must hug your children and you must love your children. Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens in the White House but on what happens inside your house

  James E. Faust

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I personally regard all of the houses of the Lord as the work of Jehovah, initiated by him, built by him, designed by him, and dedicated to him and his program.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Jehovah, Lord, Program

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• Let me go to the house of the Father.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, Famous Last Words, Let Me Go

  "Vatican: Pope John Paul's Last Words in Polish". www.foxnews.com. September 18, 2005.

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• People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beautiful, Education, Children

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.49

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• Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy

  Donna Tartt

  Children, Secret Love, Clubs

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• A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

  Alice Munro

  Stories, World, Rooms

  "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

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• I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

  Jack White

  Honesty, Son, Missing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues. . . . Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses. . . . That one should drive them out the country.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Country, Fire

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• In this House, we may belong to different parties, but we serve one country.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Country, Party, Different

  "Pelosi Elected Speaker, First Woman to Lead House", www.foxnews.com. January 4, 2007.

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• When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.

  Jay Carney

  Lying, White, Important

  "Carney: 'I never lie'" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

  Walter Annenberg

  White, Done, Carter

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• What we speak becomes the house we live in.

  Hafez

  Inspirational, Becoming, Speak

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• In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.

  Jim Costa

  Dog, Opportunity, Blue

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• It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.

  Maxine Waters

  Home, Gangsta, White

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• I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn; but to be obliged to go to a house at a certain hour, or to have to wait at home for a pupil, is what I cannot do, no matter how much money it may bring me in. . . I am a composer and was born to be a Kapellmeister. I neither can nor ought to bury the talent for composition with which God in his goodness has so richly endowed me. . .

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Home, Giving, Waiting

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• I don't think I am any different from other people. I have the same dreams. I want a family. I want a house. A car. Why shouldn't I want that? Everybody does. And when I have it, I want it all to work.

  Erlend Loe

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.78, Canongate Books

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• I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Artist, Air, Musician

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• I think I've been a great citizen.

  O. J. Simpson

  Thinking, Citizens

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

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• I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

  Jimmy Page

  Writing, Magic, Devil

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• There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Believe, Publishing House, Ideas

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• London is the clearing-house of the world.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  World, London, Clearing

  Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904

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• The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

  Theodor Herzl

  Secret, Machines, Movement

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• One of the bellwether marks of the growth and vitality of the Church is the construction of temples. We will keep on working to bring the temples to the people, making it more convenient for Latter day Saints everywhere to receive the blessings which can only be had in these holy houses.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Blessing, People, Growth

  "The Work Goes On". Ensign magazine, p. 1, May 2001.

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• Let us not live a life … that would bring regret. … It is not going to matter very much how much money you made, what kind of a house you lived in, what kind of a car you drove, the size of your bank account—any of those things. What is going to matter is that dear woman who has walked with you side by side as your companion through all of the years of life and those children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and their faithfulness and their looking to you … with respect and love and deference and kindness.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Kindness, Regret

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