"When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered."

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"When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered."

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

Edith Wharton, American Author

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"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been."

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"I guess you could say I'm what this country is all about."

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"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."

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"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."

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"To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer."

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"Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was."

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"Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'"

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"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."

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"Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball."

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"I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love."

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