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		We start 2016 with a command: that the subject of Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame is over, finis, kaput forever and ever. As sure as we will no longer discuss whether Lindsey Graham or George Pataki can be president.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frank Deford
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum: Those who know do not say; Those who say do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, 'Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?' All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, 'put it into words.' All of them were silent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anthony de Mello
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth ’tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven Which die the while they glow.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Percy Bysshe Shelley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sandra Cisneros
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Taha rose from his chair feeling angry for the first time since they...
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zakaria Tamer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At the Rose bowl, when America was playing Mexico, and those that live in this country who have come here from Mexico booed the United States - there's a huge problem with that. This is not the first time that this has happened and I think that, that is because in the United States the cultural Marxist ideas of separating people into different racial groups.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Andrew Breitbart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Oh, where is there the heart but knowsLove's first steps are upon the rose!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Letitia Elizabeth Landon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foesFirst reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;Each change of many-colored life he drew,Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new:Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign,And panting Time toiled after him in vain.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Samuel Johnson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joanne Rowling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With rue my heart is ladenFor golden friends I had,For many a rose-lipt maidenAnd many a lightfoot lad.By brooks too broad for leapingThe lightfoot boys are laid;The rose-lipt girls are sleepingIn fields where roses fade.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				A. E. Housman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love cocktails. My specialty drink is a gimlet with a little egg white in it so it gets frothy. I really like rose water - sometimes I'll add it to champagne.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christina Hendricks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vita Sackville-West
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Zadie Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Not a red rose or a satin heart.I give you an onion.It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.It promises lightlike the careful undressing of love...I am trying to be truthful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Carol Ann Duffy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		She was a form of life and lightThat seen, became a part of sight, And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye, The morning-star of memory! Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fireWith angels shared, by Alla given, To lift from earth our low desire.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lord Byron
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As soon as we are born, if we could but get up, bath, dress, shave, breakfast once for all, if we could 'cut' these monotonous cycles of routine. If the sun rose it would stay up, or once we were alive we were immortal!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. These were Underworld, The Scoundrel, Wuthering Heights, Viva Villa, Scarface, Specter of the Rose, Actors and Sin, Roman Holiday, Spellbound, Nothing Sacred.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Hecht
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Spell it Out' rose to be number 4 on the best-selling Amazon chart - ahead of 'Fifty Shades of Grey!' Who ever would have thought that spelling would one day beat sex - even if it was for only a few hours!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Crystal