#roughly

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#almost #always #contrary #correct #mistakes

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#i #i am #know #like #only

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#bad #bad thing #cannot #i #i think

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#cannot #descend #despicable #idiot #lower

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#been #called #handled #human #human race

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. ↗

— William Ralph Inge

#events #happened #in the past #into #matter

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. ↗

— William Banting

#change #clothing #conceivable #convincing #diminished

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms. ↗

— Kevin Keegan

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