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		There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Diane Ackerman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		No path is wholly rough. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're not willing to face the rough parts and confess them, you won't get there. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Jeremiah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chogyam Trungpa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bill Vaughan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought not to; they always have to go that extra mile. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				George Foreman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I have a model who is quiet and steady and with whom I am acquainted, then I draw repeatedly 'til there is one drawing that is different from the rest, which does not look like an ordinary study, but more typical and with more feeling. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vincent Van Gogh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Effective self-government cannot succeed unless the people are immersed in a steady, robust, unimpeded, and uncensored flow of opinion and reporting which are continuously subjected to critique, rebuttal, and reexamination. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William O. Douglas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Shakespeare 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Butler Yeats 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Falconer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Finnegan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the end, the whew. It hasn’t the sly turn which crimson takes halfway through, yellow’s deceptive jelly, or the rolled-down sound in brown. It hasn’t violet’s rapid sexual shudder or like a rough road the irregularity of ultramarine, the low puddle in mauve like a pancake covered in cream, the disapproving purse to pink, the assertive brevity of red, the whine of green. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William H. Gass