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• Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies,
  Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies:
  The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays,
  On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays;
  Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume,
  Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume.

  Phillis Wheatley

  Eye, Sky, Play

  Phillis Wheatley (2008). “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

  Sheldon Vanauken

  Half, Known, Ifs

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• The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Summer, Song, Rain

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.9, Pendragon Press

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• If you want execution, hail only success. If you want creativity, hail risk, and remain neutral about success.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Creativity, Inspire, Risk

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2012

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• Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they hail and are consumed with the daily jockeying for position and power within their ranks. Moreover, they both pander to and lord over their constituents.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Class, Design

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• Earthshaker, Stormbreaker, Father of Horses. Hail, Perseus Jackson, Son of the Sea God

  Rick Riordan

  Horse, Father, Son

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• What is your name?" asked Lear. Caius," said Kent. And whence do you hail?" From Bonking, sire." Well, yes, lad, as do we all," said Lear, "but from what town?

  Christopher Moore

  Names, Towns, Said

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• Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Farewell, Joy

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 249

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• This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there is a breed of Tuesday in January in which time creeps and no light comes and the air is full of water and nobody really loves anybody, but still a decent jumper and a waxen jacket lined with wool is sufficient for every weather England's got to give.

  Zadie Smith

  Blow, Light, Air

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.33, Penguin UK

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• If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth story window and plunge to his death in a hail of glass and shattered dignity" (70).

  Paul Neilan

  Glasses, Stories, Alive

  Paul Neilan (2007). “Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• Didn't we talk about this?" "HAIL!" "That isn't an answer." I planted my hands on my hips. "Was there a reason for shoving the gummy bears off the counter? Did they tell you they were suicidal? On second thought," I raised a hand, palm out, "don't answer that. If the candy is talking, I don't want to know.

  Mira Grant

  Suicidal, Hands, Talking

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• Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Planning, Clock, Hail Mary

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• Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Forever

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

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• Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Forever

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I am but summer to your heart, And not the full four seasons of the year; And you must welcome from another part Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear. No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing; And I have loved you all too long and well To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring. Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes, I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums, That you may hail anew the bird and rose When I come back to you, as summer comes. Else will you seek, at some not distant time, Even your summer in another clime.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Summer, Wise, Sweet

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2014). “Millay: Poems”, p.170, Everyman's Library

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• Through many waters borne, brother, I am come to thy sad grave, that I may give these last gifts to the dead. Forever and ever, brother, hail. Forever and ever, farewell.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Farewell, Giving

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

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• Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the free!

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

  Lady Gaga

  Beer, Men, Car

  "6 Famous Women Who Say They're Not Feminists". www.glamour.com. August 31, 2012.

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• In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the language of the Black Priesthood of Ancient Mu, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, People, Black

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lord, Chains

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• When Ke$ha tries to rap like L'Trimm, she sounds like any ordinary lonely teenage girl stuck in a nowhere town, singing along to her radio and dreaming of a party where she's the star. Ke$ha's greatness is that in her voice, you can hear both the loser girl and the star. All hail the Queen of Noi$e!

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Dream, Lonely

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• Is life worth living? Yes, so long As Spring revives the year, And hails us with the cuckoo's song, To show that she is here.

  Alfred Austin

  Song, Spring, Years

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Business, Investing, World

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.21, Penguin

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• HAIL HERMES! Mr. Lantiere has created something very special for all of us who love the history of mystery. The Magicician's Wand book opens doors to the past where we have an opportunity to explore the deeper meanings, myths and symbols of our art.

  Jeff McBride

  Art, Book, Past

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• We need to gather everyone we can. Damien scoffed. Uh, boss, hate to be a pall, but I think everyone we can gather is currently in this room. Sin paused to look at Simi, Xirena, Damien, Kat, Kish, and Xypher. It was a pitiful number of defenders. But it was all the world had. In that case, we need to seriously arm ourselves. Damien crossed himself. Hail Mary, full of grace- What are you doing? Kish asked. You're not Catholic. Yeah but I'm feeling really religious all of a sudden and it seemed like a good idea.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Religious, Hate, Thinking

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Devil May Cry”, p.124, Hachette UK

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