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"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."
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"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."
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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."
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"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."
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"As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home."
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"The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church."
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"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."
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"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
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"The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work."
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"The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows."
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"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know."
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"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."
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"Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael."
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"And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest."
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"And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left."
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"My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his."
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"But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school."
Home
"Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular."
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"Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south."
Society
"And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins."
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