"We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear."
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"There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way."
"I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something."
"If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!"
"There’s no way I’m going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country."
"For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father."
"Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision."
"Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home."
"I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows."
"Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon."
"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."
"I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them."
"And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?"
"Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things."
"Something brought you here. Trust that it will satisfy its own intention to take you Home."
"We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done."
"We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, our lives at home, at work and at play, to be lives of joy and peace."
"But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things."
"It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag."
"Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I've seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage."