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• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

  Cab Calloway

  Morning, Fog, Four

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• The first rough draft of history.

  Ben Bradlee

  Rough Drafts, Firsts, Journalism

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• [News is] a first rough draft of history.

  Phil Graham

  Rough Drafts, News, Firsts

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• Often the lack of clear direction and goals can waste away our time and energy and contribute to imbalance in our lives. A life that gets out of balance is much like a car tire that is out of balance. It will make the operation of the car rough and unsafe. Tires in perfect balance can give a smooth and comfortable ride. So it is with life. The ride through mortality can be smoother for us when we strive to stay in balance.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Clear Direction, Giving, Perfect

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• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

  Alexander Pope

  Moving, Blow, Numbers

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 368

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• The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Business, Mind, Pressure

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• What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Pain, Struggle, Ignorance

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• Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure way to tap my deepest and most vital energetic reserves. The lesson is vivid, technicolor, indelibly imprinted on my psyche.

  Chris Kilham

  Ayahuasca, Medicine, Ego

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• Autism, like a rainbow, has a bright side and a dark side and even though it can mean rough weather, it can be beautiful!

  Stuart Duncan

  Beautiful, Mean, Dark

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• Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to do it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

  Hesiod

  Sports, Lying, Sweat

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• It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Giving, Levels

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• When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Rocks, History, Littles

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Country, Heart, Rich Countries

  "Message to the Public," Times (London), 11 Feb. 1913

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• We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

  Vincent de Paul

  Heart, Humility, Grace

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• We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective.

  Vincent de Paul

  Kind, Guidance, Meekness

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• I work sometimes from outlines, which are immediately abandoned. Sometimes, when I'm trying to find the characters, I'll sketch things out a bit. Sometimes, outlines help me aim a little bit, but I tend to find it's usually much more interesting, especially with the first draft, to spew it onto the page. I used to get very nervous that, if I write this first rough draft and I die that night, whoever finds it might think that I thought it was good. For me, it's much more important to get some general shape onto the page and later take all the time I need to refine it, fix it, and rewrite it.

  Paul Rudnick

  Character, Writing, Night

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• One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!

  Terry McAuliffe

  Beer, Oil, Guy

  "Terry McAuliffe’s Green America: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Natalia Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2011.

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• The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Earthquakes, Three, Judgment

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• When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

  Terence Stamp

  Confidence, Rough Edges, Kind

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• Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors.

  Takeda Shingen

  Real, Warrior, Men

  "Ideals of the Samurai: Writings of Japanese Warriors". Book by William Scott Wilson, p. 92, 1982.

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• You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Broken, Done

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• I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

  Stevie Smith

  Swimming, People, Fish Tanks

  Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.311, Faber & Faber

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• Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

  Michael Caine

  Growing Up, Book, Elephants

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Good Day, Challenges, Today

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• You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.

  Morris Chestnut

  Nice, Smell, Clothes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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