"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world."

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"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world."

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

Home, Travel, Comfort, Nostalgia

"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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Change, Escape, Stability

"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

Robert Vaughn, American Actor

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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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"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

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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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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

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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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

Babe Ruth, American Athlete

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"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

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"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother."

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"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."

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"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."

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"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

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"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."

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