The path to your purpose might be hard and rough or it might be easy and smooth.

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"It is obvious that a woman belonging to a labouring class, who is accustomed to hard and rough work, " would be able to fight off an assailant, it said.

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Regardless, the staff of the SEC has been very hard at work and have certainly developed a rough draft of a crowdfunding proposal in the last 6 months.

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Rough competition and weaker overseas markets have hit Chinese solar entrepreneurs hard in the several years.

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At home and overseas, Barack Obama has just erased three years of rough spots from the hard disc of politics.

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And even though they finished the regular season tied for ninth in the Big East, even though there were some rough spots during the season, these players just put their heads down, they worked hard, and they focused on winning the games that counted.

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