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As I gaze around at these strangers in town, I guess the only stranger is me.
As I see what they've done to this place that was home, shame is all that I feel.

— Jeff Lynne Time (1981)

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At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

It's a livin' thing.
It's a terrible thing to lose.
It's a given thing.
What a terrible thing to lose.

A New World Record (1976)

I've got a ticket to the moon.
I'll be leaving here any day soon

Time (1981)

I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.

The love, the echoes of long ago
you needed the world to know
They are in Xanadu
The dream that came through a million years
That lived on through all the tears, it came to Xanadu

Xanadu (1980)

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

Robert Frost North of Boston (1914)

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a Home.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin Humanity in the City (1854)

A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.

Edward Coke Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)

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