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• Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

  Michael Lewis

  Sea, Fishing, People

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• The changes that have occurred in poetry have been minor when you look at it over the scale of human time. It's like a rose, maybe a hybrid with color and size differentials, but the same genus, plucked from the same original blowsy family.

  Dorianne Laux

  Color, Looks, Size

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• I never felt I was missing anything ever until one day I stopped long enough to smell the roses outside of this little treadmill I'd gotten myself onto and I realised there were other things that I like that I didn't know. I realised I didn't like certain things in my life that I then got rid of and it just opened the door to a plethora of other things that entered.

  Sandra Bullock

  Doors, Smell, Long

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Religious, Pain, Grief

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.164, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.

  Will Durant

  Christian, Rome, Perspective

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• The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Religious, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Self, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sweet, Names, Smell

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.274, Grove Press

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• If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Baby

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• I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.mightycompanions.org

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• In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right." Be patient. Be good friends first. And stick together. You gotta work at it. It's not all a honeymoon, it's not all flowers and roses, but if you're friends and partners and committed, you'll be okay. And everybody's got advice for you - don't listen.

  Denzel Washington

  Flower, Good Friend, Two

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• 'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

  Homer

  Sad, Strong, Dust

  Homer “The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions”, Library of Alexandria

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• So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds". I said "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• A story is told that Whistler once painted a tiny picture of a spray of roses. The artistry involved in the picture was magnificent. Never before, it seemed, had the art of man been able to execute quite so deftly a reproduction of the art of nature.

  Sterling W Sill

  Art, Men, Stories

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• Optimism is a tonic. Pessimism is poison. Admittedly, every businessman must be realistic. He must gather facts, analyze them candidly and strive to draw logical conclusions, whether favorable or unfavorable. He must not engage in self-delusion. He must not view everything through rose-colored glasses. Granting this, the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

  B. C. Forbes

  Adventure, Destiny, Men

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• It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Running, Morning, Autumn

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.159, e-artnow

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• A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

  Ovid

  White, Erotic, Rubies

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• Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, White

  William Shakespeare, J. H. P. Pafford (1963). “The Winter's Tale: Second Series”, p.103, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Bud, Noses

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 39

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• I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, White, Red

  William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.209, Classic Books Company

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• Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  William Shakespeare, William George CLARK, William Aldis Wright (1866). “The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright”, p.1040

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• The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Pride

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775

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• We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.

  Tug McGraw

  Years, Soup, Twenties

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• The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the cost to itself. It changes darkness into light and evil into good. But it will not, at the cunning tears of Hell, impose on good the tyranny of evil. Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world's garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Religious, Healing

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