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“The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.”

Firsts Persons Names White Numbers Six Female Slave Males Household Census

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“A man who has been born into the house of a warrior and yet places no loyalty in his heart and thinks only of the fortune of his position will be flattering on the surface and construct schemes in his heart, will forsake righteousness and not reflect on his shame, and will stain the warrior's name of his household to later generations. This is truly regrettable.”

Thinking Men Heart Has Beens House Names Born Generations Position Shame Fortune Surface Loyalty Warrior Righteousness Household Schemes Constructs Stains Flattering Forsake

Author:Torii Mototada

“I became the head of the household. I went to school in the morning and sold wines all afternoon until seven o'clock in the evening.”

School Morning Wine Seven Evening Clock Afternoon Household

Book:You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler

Source: You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler

“The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.”

Men Way May Turns He Man Please Necks Household

Author:Nia Vardalos

“Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.”

“Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.”

Thinking Life Law Causes Peace Gone Pure Innocence Breathing Fearful Household Homely

Author:William Wordsworth

“America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.”

Giving Humans America Black Human Life Pet Household Tolerate Black History Misuse Second Thoughts

Author:Dick Gregory

“When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.”

Mean Book One Thing Management Household Housework Chores Clean House Household Chores House Cleaning

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“Of this voyage, I observe, that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal miracles that He has shown on the voyage, and for me, who for so great a time was in the court of Your Highnesses with the opposition and against the opinion of so many high personages of your household, who were all against me, alleging this undertaking to be folly, which I hope in Our Lord will be to the greater glory of Christianity, which to some slight extent already has happened.”

“I run my household. Not all the time, well, sometimes.”

Wells Sometimes Running Household

Author:Arash

“In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.”

Learning Ten Equal Bounds Household Unlikely Trustworthy

Book:Lunyu

Source: Lunyu

“Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.”

Father Wife Citizens Husband Members Fellows Indifference Household Indifferent

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.”

Sometimes Sound Sleep Rooms Loud Household Compulsion Awakened

Author:Gelsey Kirkland

“I called all the major network news bureaus, including Public Radio, and reported ozone AIDS cures coming out of Europe. Not a single reporter or show called back for details. I wrote and sent documentation to all the 'household word' TV talk show hosts who make their living acting 'concerned' and I tried all the 'AIDS fund raising spokespeople', show business celebs, even sending proof of their home addresses, but as of yet not one single phone call or inquiry came back for more.”

“Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.”

Should Art Language Theory Studios Smell Painter Household Sculptors Good Art

Book:Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.”

Purpose Lays Planning Budgets Sensible Household Planning Things

Author:Walter Ulbricht

“We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.”

Sometimes Matter Hard Used Three Names Four Months Household

Author:Ruben Studdard

“A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.”

Helping Party Events Household Diaries

Author:Anthea Turner

“The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.”

Running Blood England Household Veins Petitions

Author:Caleb Cushing

“It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.”

Different Would Be Odd Piano Grandmother Household

Author:Diane Cilento

“We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products.”

Products Function Bills Goods Mentality Household Packs Tribes

Author:Joey Skaggs

“I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household.”

Sound Grew Grew Up Household Brooklyn Live Music

Author:Tony Visconti

“I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.”

Political Grew Grew Up Household Underdog Sydney

Author:John Pilger

“He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.”

Firsts May Please Household

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.”

Heard Influence Household

Author:Boz Scaggs

“Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition.”

Wells Stars Amount Healthy Ten Competition Nine Household Unfortunate Healthy Competition

Author:Edwin Starr

“Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.”

Two Careers Seasons Excited Racing Household

Author:Ashley Judd

“The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.”

Wells Has Beens Philosophy Mother Father India Ancient Indian Household Very Deep Mother And Father Ancient Philosophy

Author:Amar Bose

“I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.”

Poor Childhood Violent Household Being Afraid

Author:Patrick Stewart

“Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.”

Political Growing Up Growing Household

Author:Judith Guest

“He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.”

Matter Literature Pleasure Painting No Matter What Possession Genuine Contemplating Household Curtains Lace

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)

“Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.”

Doors Careful Noise Command Halls Be Careful Household Disputes Respectable Bad Word

Author:Robert Grosseteste

“Command those that govern your house before all you household that they keep careful watch that all your household, within and without, be faithful, painstaking, chaste, clean, honest and profitable.”

House Watches Honest Clean Careful Command Faithful Household Profitable Being Faithful Chaste

Author:Robert Grosseteste

“The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.”

Men Matter Numbers Ignorance Protect Average Household Telephones Cheerful Housework Average Man Crumbs Inefficiency Grocers

Book:Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution

“The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from.”

People Knows Needs Running Names Party Position Bills Democratic Clinton Brown Household Democratic Party Chairman

Author:Susan Estrich

“The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.”

“Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms.”

Wells Important Play Growth Roles Economic Achieve Investment Financial Saving Corporate Firm Fund Crucial Household Savings Economic Growth Channeling Financial System

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.”

Ifs Children Littles Poor Heard Brother Spokes Household Discreet Poor Children

Book:Little Thumb (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Der kleine Däumling (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)

Source: Little Thumb (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Der kleine Däumling (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)

“Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.”

Ifs Belief Honest Office Command Manners Faithful Reasonable Good Man Household Good Manners Discreet

Author:Robert Grosseteste

“Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.”

Knows Pleasure All Things Gods Will Things To Do Household Serving God

Author:Robert Grosseteste

“And be careful of this, that each day at your meals you have two overseers over your household when you sit at meals, and of this be sure, that you shall be very much feared and reverenced.”

Two Careful Meals Each Day Over You Be Careful Household

Author:Robert Grosseteste

“While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.”

Real Done Faces Used Tvs Advantage Boss Household Profile Walt

Author:Leonard Maltin

“Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.”

Way Heart Soul Command Division Household Strife Accord Discord

Author:Robert Grosseteste

“Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.”

Knows Problem Mother Father Animal Levels Comfortable Silent Raised Household Yards Bugs Deaf Supervisors

Author:William Petersen

“Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.”

“What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation.”

Force Nations Causes Building Highest Destroyed Target Collapse Household Imagery Symbolic Icons Manhattan

Author:Jurgen Habermas

“Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.”

Universe Economy Generations Planets Development Importance Relation Introducing Household Absurdity Petty

Author:Alexander Herzen

“After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.”

Enough Wanted Mother Force Months Lessons Cost Six Intelligent Household Six Months

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.”

Literature President Percent Unions Data Voters Household Polls President Bush Exit

Author:Linda Chavez

“There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.”

Made Two Important Running Household Cleaning Two Days Chores

Author:Robert Breault

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