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I was born in Homestead, Florida.
Chrissy Metz /
Born
Florida
Homestead
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I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.
Dan Abrams / Television Host
Internet
Land
Parcel
Comparable
Cultivate
Homestead
Sign
Yours
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The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
Stefan Zweig / Novelist
Dogma
Favors
Independent
Party
Favor
Homestead
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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
John C. Hawkes /
Died
Ireland
Homestead
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Our Family is deeply honoured to see the Irish Government taking this enormous interest in the development of the Kennedy Homestead Visitor attraction.
Jean Kennedy Smith /
Attraction
Enormous
Homestead
Honoured
Visitor
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In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
Peter Agre / Physician
Abraham
Gdp
Half
Miles
One Half
Opening
Settlement
Squares
Territory
Western
Bill
Homestead
Lincoln
Million
Signed
Square
Square Miles
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Every Thanksgiving, we visited our New York cousins and went shopping at Bergdorf's and Saks for long dresses to wear to the Homestead for New Year's Eve.
Tinsley Mortimer /
Thanksgiving
Dresses
Shopping
Eve
Homestead
Visited
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Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.
Laura Ingalls Wilder / Writer
Country
Hunting
West
Worn
Years
Homestead
Ma
Pa
Settled
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It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.
David Levering Lewis / University Professor
Andrew
Broke
Carnegie
Clay
Men And Women
Steel
Workers
Men Women American
Backs
Women Men American
Henry
Homestead
Strike
Watershed
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As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.
Sheri L. Dew / Author
Depression
Commitment
Dust
Grandpa
Prairie
Bowl
Farm
Homestead
Plains
Young Girl
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At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
Mark Edwards /
Neighborhood
Outrageous
Records
Attempted
Demanded
Owner
Homestead
Purchase
Sum
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I want people to throw on a hat, head out into the outback and see the real Australia. You can do it how you want - independently in a 4WD, camping under the stars, or being treated like a king in a luxury homestead or on a cruise.
John Torode /
Australia
Camping
Cruise
Luxury
Real
Stars
Treated
You Can Do It
Hat
Head
Homestead
Independently
Throw
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I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.
Charles M. Schwab /
Hills
Happiness Work Good
Elated
Entirely
Evenings
Greatest Happiness
Homestead
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I was standing on a ladder outside the Homestead juvenile immigrant detention center outside Miami, looking over the fence, and I saw children lined up like prisoners. They had been separated from their families and put in this private detention facility. It was horrible.
Kamala Harris / California Attorney General
Detention
Facility
Fence
Horrible
Juvenile
Miami
Standing
Center
Families
Saw
Homestead
Immigrant
Lined
Outside
Prisoners
Private
Separated
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A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm.
James Thomas Fields / Publisher
Journey
Blessing
Doors
Harm
Load
Luck
Might
Descend
Any
Barn
Crown
Door
Down
Fast
Farm
Him
His
Homestead
Nailed
Picked
Pour
Travelling
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The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.
Charles M. Schwab /
Connected
Department
Finished
First Time
Plant
Satisfaction
Taken
Complete
Desired
Entire
Homestead
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A pig has a plow on the end of its nose because it does meaningful work with it. It is built to dig and create soil disturbance, something it can't do in a concentrated feeding environment. The omnivore has historically been a salvage operation for food scraps around the homestead.
Joel Salatin / American Farmer
Disturbance
Environment
Feeding
Meaningful
Salvage
Soil
Concentrated
Dig
Historically
Homestead
Nose
Operation
Pig
Plow
Scraps
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