"Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home."

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"Most jobs today are still structured the same way they were 50 years ago, when most families had someone who could stay at home."

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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

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

Stephen King, American Author

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

Edith Wharton, American Author

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"Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics."

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"What we do is not going to be successful unless our members care about it."

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"I'm a mediator by training and inclination."

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"I find it odd that there's such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions."

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"We've got 50 percent voter turnout for presidential elections. That's appalling. We can do so much better."

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"When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will."

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"We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition."

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"It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do."

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"Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail."

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"I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country."

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