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• I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

  Helen Keller

  Taken, Mean, Eye

  "Three Days to See". Book by Helen Keller, 1933.

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Distance, Team, Risk

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• The prompting that goes unresponded to may not be repeated. Writing down what we have been prompted with is vital. A special thought can be lost later in the day through the rough and tumble of life. God should not, and may not, choose to repeat the prompting if we assign what is given such a low priority as to put it aside.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Writing, Priorities, Special

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• In the peace process, the partner doesn't just sit and allow things to deteriorate to the point of disaster. The United States is needed with thoughts and with ideas, not only with the attitude of a messenger between parties, but - when things get rough - to come in and help with what is just and what is right, to overcome difficulty.

  King Hussein I

  Attitude, Party, Ideas

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• It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.

  Desiree Akhavan

  Hurt, Cutting, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong.
  
  The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Thinking, Kind

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• I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out of my ass. To some that's just rough sex. Some would read that sentence and be turned on by that: the 51st Shade of Gay.

  Kevin Sessums

  Sex, Gay, Blood

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Men, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Sea, Water, Captains

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• I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.

  Robert Stone

  Writing, Trying, Firsts

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• Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Errors, Two

  The Advancement of Learning bk. 1, ch. 5, sec. 8 (1605)

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• Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

  George Chapman

  Life, Running, Wind

  George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

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• The way of the pioneer is always rough.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Pioneers, Way, Pioneering

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• Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

  Sam Ervin

  Light, Pathways, Burden

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• How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Blue, Hands

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.2325, Delacorte Press

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• I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

  Christina Aguilera

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fun, Lying, Cat

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.110, Feiwel & Friends

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• A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.

  Anna Godbersen

  Men, Imagination, World

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• You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Sweet, Fall

  Louisa May Alcott “Little Women”, Рипол Классик

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• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Soccer, Football

  Quoted in Alvin Redman The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (1952).

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• The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Lying, Angel

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

  Anderson Cooper

  Wall, Passion, Heart

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• If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.

  Meat Loaf

  Play, Want, Violence

  Song: Masculine, 1986

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• Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.

  Mother Jones

  Strong, Hands, World

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• I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there. A lot of rough stuff as well. What there is, too, is an awful lot of expressiveness and intelligence and originality down there. And a lot of thwarted intelligence.

  Martin Amis

  Witty, Thinking, Class

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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