#rough

What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #different #entirely #had #happened

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#happening #i #me #really #soviet

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#brought #disgraceful #everything #institutions #irish

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing. ↗

— Mother Jones

#me #needed #rough #someone #teachers

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#am #i #i am #just #me

The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#being #best #came #cannot #come

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#life #looking #ongoing #out #process

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society. ↗

— Tabare Vazquez

#economic #economic growth #enough #growth #society

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

#aside #been #better #buy #constructed