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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."

"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."

"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."

"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."

"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."

"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."

"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."
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