"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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"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."

James Madison, American President

Home, Danger, Liberty, Loss

"America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live."

Rick Allen, American Musician

Home, Time, America, Land

"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages."

Fredric Jameson, American Critic

Home, War, Achievement, Effort

"My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property."

John Breaux, American Politician

Home, Property, Want

"I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't."

Louise Woodward, British Celebrity

Home, Thought

"So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home."

Bill Janklow, American Politician

Home, People, Opportunity

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

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Home, Heart, Kitchen, Health

"Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move."

Augustus Longstreet, American Lawyer

Home, Disgust, Style

"Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base."

Martin Milner, American Actor

Home, Cities, Comfort, Road

"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Loss, Belonging, Emotion

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

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"Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession."

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"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."

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

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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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"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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"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."

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