"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.“

-Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart quote about home: "Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense."

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"Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way."

-Ray Dalio

"I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids."

-Chris O'Donnell

"My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room."

-Sherman Alexie

"To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry."

-Malcolm Turnbull

"At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour."

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"We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing."

-Melinda Gates