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"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism."

Daniel Bell, American Sociologist

Home, America, Europe, Land

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"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism."

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"Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Home, Love, People, Moment

"Home is a desk. The amalgamation of a dream. Home is the cats, my books, and my work never done. All the lost things that may one day call to me, the faces of my children who will one day call to me. Maybe we can't draw flesh from reverie nor retrieve a dusty spur, but we can gather the dream itself and bring it back uniquely whole."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Home, Dream, Family, Memory

"New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Home, Decay, Family, Community, Happiness

"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."

George Eliot, British Author

Home, Women, Bachelors, Husbands

"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."

Zig Ziglar, American Author

Home, People, Relationships

"The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Home, Death, Night, Will

"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Home, Success, Hope, Adversity

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Home, Comfort, Nothing

"Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves."

Robert Neelly Bellah, American Sociologist

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"The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain."

"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."

"When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults."

"But in action, one defies one's character."

"Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism."

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