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• The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central fear a fear of intellect.

  Hal Porter

  Art, Ice Cream, Self

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• I encountered a large temporary sign declaring Rough Road Ahead, and indeed it was. Had I not been warned, that experience would have been disastrous. Life is like that. It's full of rough spots. Some are tests to make us stronger. Others result from our own disobedience.... Each one of us encounters unique challenges meant for growth.

  Richard G. Scott

  Unique, Challenges, Growth

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• My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Revenge, Hoe, Lust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a stick instead of a lancet for you will only drive it deeper. Rough speech and harsh gestures are the stick, while even-tempered instruction and patient reprimand are the lancet. 'Reprove, rebuke, exhort,' says the Apostle (II Tim. 4:2), not 'batter'.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Wish, Splinters

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.149, Paulist Press

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• I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Travel, Heart, Mind

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• Well, I won't give up on us, Even if the skies get rough
  I'm giving you all my love, I'm still looking up

  Jason Mraz

  Giving Up, Sky, I Won't Give Up

  Song: I Won't Give Up

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• Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.

  William H. Macy

  Beautiful, Shameless, Shows

  "William H. Macy on Shameless, Directing Sex Scenes, and Winning a SAG Award" by Bruce Fretts, www.vulture.com. February 27, 2015.

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• An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Economics

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• THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

  Jacque Fresco

  Guy, Academia, Earth

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• By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies, from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe.

  David Deida

  Heart, Sublime, Energy

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

  Phil Graham

  Rough Drafts, News, Firsts

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• The first rough draft of history.

  Ben Bradlee

  Rough Drafts, Firsts, Journalism

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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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• As we go through life, even through very rough waters, a father's instinctive impulse to cling tightly to his wife or to his children may not be the best way to accomplish his objective. Instead, if he will lovingly cling to the Savior and the iron rod of the gospel, his family will want to cling to him and to the Savior.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Father, Iron

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• I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

  Tommy Shaw

  Guitar, Vintage, Play

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• The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Demand, Path, Virtue

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.308, Stanford University Press

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• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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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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• American gentlemen are a cross between English and French men, and yet really altogether like neither. They are more refined and modest than Frenchmen, and less manly, shy, and rough, than Englishmen. Their brains are finer and flimsier, their bodies less robust and vigorous than ours. We are the finer animals, and they the subtler spirits. Their intellectual tendency is to excitement and insanity, and ours to stagnation and stupidity.

  Fanny Kemble

  Animal, Men, Stupidity

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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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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