Maurice Strong (1929–2015) Canadian businessman
Maurice Strong, opening speech at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit But this quotation is not in the version posted on Mr. Strong's site. http://www.mauricestrong.net/index.php/opening-statement6
“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
— James Baldwin, book Giovanni's Room
Source: Giovanni's Room
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Logic of Empire (p. 335); this is one of the earliest known variants of an idea which has become known as Hanlon's razor.
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Source: The Green Hills of Earth
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Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Robert Benchley (1889–1945) American comedian
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“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
Philip José Farmer book Venus on the Half-Shell
Venus on the Half-Shell (December 1974); written using the pseudonym Kilgore Trout, with the permission of Kurt Vonnegut.
“Home isn't a place, its a feeling”
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.
Source: Love, Rosie