"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."

Kingman Brewster, Jr., American Educator

Home, Travel, Word

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"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."

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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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"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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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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"Home was wherever they were together, and it felt good."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."

Admiration, Coolness, Service

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

Saying, Kingman Brewster

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"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."

Challenge, Expectation, Satisfaction

"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."

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"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."

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"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."

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"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."

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"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."

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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."

Ambiguity, Kingman Brewster