"I dwell in possibilities... a fairer house than prose."
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"I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior — for Doors."
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"I know some lonely houses off the road A robber'd like the look of,-- Wooden barred, And windows hanging low"
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"I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing."
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"The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house."
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"It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house."
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"I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that."
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"Greatness brings no profit to people. God indeed, when in anger, brings greater ruin to great mens houses."
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"The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'"
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"You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence."
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"I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it."
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"When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials attacked us with the RM Virus will not live in anything, because there will be none of us left to remember it." -President David R. Cregan, March 21, 2065, in a press conference at the White House. Three hours later he hanged himself."
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"It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7."
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"When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman stumbled on the threshold as he left the house, he gave up his plans for the day. This seems to us senseless, but under primitive conditions of life such an omen inclines one at least to be cautious. When I am not in full control of myself, my bodily movements may be under a certain constraint; my attention is easily distracted; I am somewhat absent-minded. As a result I knock against something, stumble, let something fall, or forget something."
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"I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen."
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"Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods."
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"I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House."
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"I made my own house be my gallows."
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"An old man in a house is a good sign."
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"If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them."
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