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• The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Government, Jim Crow Laws

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• Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

  Henri Poincare

  Business, Clouds, Ideas

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• Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

  Frederick Reines

  Leadership, Boys, Years

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• The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

  Mitt Romney

  Confidence, Wall, Evil

  "Never Retreat, Never Apologize" by David Weigel, www.slate.com. July 25, 2012.

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• She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

  Marquis de Sade

  Spring, Flower, Different

  marquis de Sade (1963). “De Sade Quartet [four Stories from Cortes Et Fabliaux”

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• I'm definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Night, Names

  Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.

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• When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

  Joe Slovo

  Morning, Men, Wife

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• I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don't think they should rip up the Rose Garden, because that's something that I love. They should probably dig up another patch and grow some vegetables there.

  Martha Stewart

  Rip, Garden, Thinking

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• I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

  Sharon Tate

  Alaska, Glasses, World

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• Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

  Mike Wallace

  Boston, Russia, Parent

  "Larry King Interviews Mike Wallace". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

  Juan Williams

  Lions, Republican, Teddy

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• I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Husband, War, Would Be

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• in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking is to dream, remember so(forgetting seem) in time of roses(who amaze our now and here with paradise) forgetting if,remember yes in time of all sweet things beyond whatever mind may comprehend, remember seek(forgetting find) and in a mystery to be (when time from time shall set us free) forgetting me,remember me

  e. e. cummings

  Dream, Sweet, Goal

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• There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.

  William Carlos Williams

  Son, Clouds, Wind

  William Carlos Williams, “Kora In Hell: Improvisations XXVII”

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• The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

  Gregory Maguire

  Moon, Light, Tipping

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• The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.

  Cathleen Schine

  Sweet, Morning, Wild Roses

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• Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

  Stephen King

  Wings, Shadow, Body

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• There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.

  Alice Hoffman

  Rain, Clouds, Blue

  Alice Hoffman (2001). “The River King”, p.169, Penguin Group

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• No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.648, Oxford University Press

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• A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Night, June

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.286, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat

  Anne Rice

  Song, Blessed, Tunnels

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• He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.

  Willa Cather

  Flower, Dark, Sea

  Willa Cather (1999). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.279, U of Nebraska Press

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• nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

  e. e. cummings

  Country, Rain, Eye

  E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

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• The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

  William Golding

  Hair, Water, Lines

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.281, Al Manhal

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• People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Eye, Garden

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