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Tao Lin Author and Poet
Horse

"I feel connected with people because of their sense of humor, worldview, and what they think and feel about certain existential issues (things not affected, in my view, by if someone rides a horse or drives a car or talks only IRL or only by typing), not how old they are, what they use to convey what they think and feel about certain existential issues, or if we have both watched the same TV shows or looked at the same websites."

Thinking Issues Horse
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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Horse

"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."

Horse Criticism Pet
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Horse

"I sometimes think that as singles it's easy to bind to this mentality that my future husband's going to ride up on a white horse, I'll know that he's the one, and we'll start our life together. That happens to people once in a blue moon. I have heard of that - never really dated anyone and then this person comes along - but it's not probable that that would happen."

Husband Horse Moon
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
Horse

"The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression."

Team Horse Taxation
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"When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit."

Character Wall Horse
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Robert Hughes Art Critic, Author
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"For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which few people had experienced before – the succession and superimposition of views, the unfolding of landscape in flickering surfaces as one was carried swiftly past it, and an exaggerated feeling of relative motion (the poplars nearby seeming to move faster than the church spire across the field) due to parallax. The view from the train was not the view from the horse. It compressed more motifs into the same time. Conversely, it left less time in which to dwell on any one thing."

Moving Past Horse
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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
Horse

"What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind."

Horse Wind Knives
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
Horse

"My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn"

Fall Father Horse
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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
Horse

"Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!"

Dark Horse Deeds
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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Horse

"If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses."

Horse Abortion Nasty
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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Horse

"Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright."

Heart Dark Horse
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Jackie Kennedy First Lady
Horse

"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer."

Horse Summer July
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"Machines have about as much warmth as a cube of ice. And that is why the horse is still part of our lives and will live on. He was here millions of years before man came upon the earth, and if the cycle is completed, he may still be thundering across the world long after man has vanished."

Men Years Horse
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George Washington Military Leader, Politician
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"As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!"

Opportunity Powerful Horse
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Gilbert Murray Classical Scholar, Writer
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"A machine is a great moral educator. If a horse or a donkey won’t go, men lose their tempers and beat it; if a machine won’t go, there is no use beating it. You have to think and try till you find what is wrong. That is real education."

Men Real Horse
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Gracie Allen Actress, Comedian
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"It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else."

Winning Horse Silly
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Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist
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"A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat."

Stars Reading Horse
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