"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"

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"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Change, Escape, Stability

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

Steven Curtis Chapman, American Musician

Home, Wife, Cheating, Nothing

"I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home."

Michael Zaslow, American Actor

Home, Feelings, Negative, Hurt

"Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them."

Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Statesman

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"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home."

Christopher Dodd, American Politician

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"The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest."

Al Franken, American Comedian

Home, Politics, Network, Senate

"I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

Home, Time, Games

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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."

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"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."

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"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."

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"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"

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"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

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"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."

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"Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves."

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"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."

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