"I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese."

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"I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese."

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"To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home."

Lesley Garrett, English Musician

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"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect."

Alan Moore, British Writer

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"To a homeless man, home is literally where the heart is."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again."

Will Carleton, American Poet

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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

James Thurber, American Comedian

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"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."

Christian Morgenstern, German Poet

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"I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."

Celia Cruz, Cuban Musician

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"They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms."

Louise Penny, Canadian Author

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