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		A stranger's rose is but a thorn.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				I. L. Peretz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Preity Zinta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christina Aguilera
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				A. Bartlett Giamatti
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air,Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair;And they heard the words it said,-'Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Elizabeth Barrett Browning
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Douglas Wiggin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		He now set down all the communications apparatus, rose stiffly from the chair and momentarily stood facing the misty, immobile, icebound shape of Joe Chip resting within its transparent plastic casket. Upright and silent, as it would be for the rest of eternity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Philip K. Dick
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Oh, but Paris isn’t for changing planes, it’s… it’s for changing your outlook, for… for throwing open the windows and letting in… letting in la vie en rose.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sabrina Salerno
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joan Didion
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ian Gardner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Liu Yang
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jose Rizal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Bluebell,” she said, remembering from Erotique. “Pretty name.” “I call Dmitri Dark Overlord.” “Shae,” Dmitri said and the female vampire rose at once to walk quickly into the house. “Now, pretty Bluebell” another languid stroke across her skin “tell the Overlord what you discovered.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nalini Singh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jennifer Carpenter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the bright flag he was waving. He raced toward the seven-foot fence; without apparent effort he rose in the air and cleared the top with a good hand-breadth to spare; then dashed up to his master that he loved, and gamboled there and licked his hand in heart-full joy. Again the victor's crown was his, and the master, a man of dogs, caressed the head of shining black with the jewel eyes of gold.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ernest Thompson Seton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Emily Bronte
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amy Alcott
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hal Borland