"Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together."
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"We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire: He is hidden in every atom, and yet is a stranger to us: He is revealed in the moonlight, and in the embrace of houses."
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"Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."
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"Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house."
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"They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat."
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"A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat."
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"Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too."
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"The ego is not master in its own house."
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"It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate."
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"The most important piece in the house is the garbage can."
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"My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy."
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"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind."
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"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."
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"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."
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"I wouldn't bet on a horse unless he came up to my house and told me to himself."
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"Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen."
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"They say when opportunity knocks you should let it in and invite it to sit at your table. F*** that -- when opportunity knocks, you should take it captive. Beat that s*** down. I've got opportunity tied to a chair in my basement with a ball gag in its mouth. Opportunity ain't even thinking about leaving my house. If you keep quiet for a second, you'll hear it whining."
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"Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations."
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"In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation."
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"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began."
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