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• I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Yards, Buzz, Cleaning

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• We always need to be prepared and work hard in practice so we can be just like the farmer who has put that fourth cutting of hay in the barn. After he does that, he can feel good about what is going to happen the rest of the winter.

  Don Meyer

  Basketball, Hard Work, Winter

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• Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Gun, Rights, People

  "The Liberty Manifesto". P. J. O'Rourke 's Speech for the opening of the Cato Institute's headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 6, 1993.

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• I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.

  Robert Lowell

  Swimming, August, Air

  'Mr Edwards and the Spider' (1950)

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• Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

  Antonio Machado

  Als, Path, Action

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• Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fire, Meditation, Way

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• We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the aid of carnal Reason with her inferences and similes is called in, just as in a picture or a dream you might see the King of the flies with his lances of straw and shields of hay arrayed against a real and regular army of seasoned human troops. That is how the human dreams of Diatribe go to war with the battalions of divine words.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Kings, Real

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• Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you won’t even have to tell yourself, because you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, “Take me away.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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• There's too much political hay to be made undercutting the war, and the consequences be damned. If they want to defeat the war to defeat Bush, well, noted. If they truly believe that the United States is in the same group as the Nazis, the Soviets and Pol Pot, then they've shown they have no perspective, no judgment, no sense of nuance, shall we say. And the idea that such comparisons might be picked up in the Middle East and broadcast with glee is irrelevant; they're parochial to a fault, and care little for anything beyond their reputation and power in Washington.

  James Lileks

  War, Believe, Ideas

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• He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person.]

  Horace

  Horns, Mischievous, Persons

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• My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair.

  Smohalla

  Dream, Mother, Native American

  "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.

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• My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruel--not speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.

  Clara Barton

  Home, Writing, Men

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Good Luck, Long, Waiting

  Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Four-Leaved Clover”

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• Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.

  Walter de La Mare

  Summer, Gone, Dainty

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• Farm country -- you know, hay, horses, cattle. It's the ideal situation for me. I like the physical endeavors that go with the farm -- cutting hay, cleaning out stalls, or building a barn. You go do that and then come back to the writing.

  Sam Shepard

  Country, Horse, Writing

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• Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

  Dr. Seuss

  Uncles, Thinking, Two

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• A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

  Garrison Keillor

  True Love, Song, Book

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Love Me”, p.36, Penguin

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• I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Perfect, Healthy, Lovely

  New York Times, February 2, 1986.

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• ...it’d be like looking for a needle in a burning haystack.' 'Oh, I’ve done that,' Mark said airily. 'It’s a game we used to play, after we got rid of all our livestock and didn’t need our hay no more. You throw a match into the haystack, give the fire a three-second head start, and begin looking. You can find the needle every time if you work quick

  Margaret Haddix

  Fire, Games, Play

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Among the Brave”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Hate, Confused, Hands

  Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• People are amazed because I don't get much with the colds. Sometimes in the spring or in the fall, I'll get a little hay fever.

  Donald Trump

  Spring, Fall, Hay Fever

  "Trump Reveals Health Records On Dr. Oz". Interview with Dr. Oz, www.dailywire.com. September 15, 2016.

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• When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

  Bryan Cranston

  Sunset, Careers, Shining

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

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• So in a strange way, even though Trump is a billionaire, what he's been saying is, "Everything's rigged, it's all corrupt and I'm not corrupt because I'm my own billionaire." Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie Sanders made a lot of hay by making that argument.

  Jane Mayer

  Way, Strange, Argument

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

  Robert Redford

  Beautiful, Kids, Freckles

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