"Any book is a Good Book, and wherever they keep the Good Book safe is also the House a the Lord."
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"My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home."
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"Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?"
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"Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it."
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"Hang on. This Lord Voldything's back you say?... and now he's sending dismembers after you?... I see. Well that settles it, YOU CAN GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE BOY!"
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"Don't be stupid, it's a flying house!"
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"If only the hat had mentioned a house for people who felt a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him."
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"Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here."
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"An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared."
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"It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty."
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"Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand."
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"It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do."
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"Faith is the spiritual house in which we live."
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"I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around."
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"I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where."
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"I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'"
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"I guess maybe I was hired to play in the Doll House because of my dinner scene in The Sixth Sense, which has been scrutinized a thousand times as to whether you know Bruce Willis is dead, or whether I'm talking to myself. I think that maybe if that could be my forte, to do a scene and be able to say it could be read this way or that way."
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"I'm angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House."
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"My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world."
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"I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling."
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