"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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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

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Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

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"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

Jane D. Hull, American Politician

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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

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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."

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"There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife."

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"I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility."

Ernest Istook, American Politician

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