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"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation."

Roger Maris, American Athlete

Home, Chance, Preparation

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"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation."

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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."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Home, Imperfection, Hope, Acceptance

"An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides."

Edwin Meese, American Public Servant

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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."

Lance Morrow, American Journalist

Home, Applause, Crowds

"Where thou art that is home."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Home, Identity, Belonging, Comfort

"We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all."

Francis Maude, British Politician

"Where thou art, that is home."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

"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."

George Smathers, American Politician

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"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on."

"I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth."

"Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record."

"It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc."

"It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs."

"Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it."

"You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation."

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