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• I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

  Sam Shepard

  Different, Lucky, Stories

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• I feed the branches of the people.

  Kanye West

  People

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• The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.

  Sam Lake

  Writing, Games, Example

  "Alan Wake writer Sam Lake on the creative process. Part one". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2010.

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• September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. ... Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out.

  Jean Hersey

  Night, Air, Purple

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• Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.

  Ann Wroe

  Flower, Heart, Winter

  "Why the ‘My Job Is Harder’ Fight Isn’t a Battle You Want to Win" by Lisa Earle McLeod, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.

  Aristotle

  Education, Views, Intellectual

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.214, Princeton University Press

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• The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Obstacles, Formidable, Enjoyed

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• A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Doors, Forgiving

  Umberto Eco (1995). “How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The presidency is the most visible thread that runs through the tapestry of the American government. More often than not, for good or for ill, it sets the tone for the other branches and spurs the expectations of the people.

  Mike Pence

  Running, Government, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall.

  Tim Ward

  Letting Go, Fall, Bird

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• There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Art, Perfect, Design

  "Women In Design: Diane Von Furstenberg". Interview with David Colman, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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• I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Analysis, Mathematics

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are very hip on the fact that America's always No. 1. On this we are not, in terms of the number of women in our legislative branches and obviously as head of state. We need to push on that. I hate to say this: It isn't all men's fault. I think some of it is our own attitude and approach. Some of it very healthy, that women want to make choices about their lives and how they want to spend their time, and what they value.

  Madeleine Albright

  Attitude, Hate, Men

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• Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to your vehicle. We all have a vehicle. Whether it's a thug, or a school child or the babyface or the sex siren or the video vin, whatever it is ride that until the wheels fall off and eventually, if you build your foundation then you can branch off.

  Michael K. Williams

  Sex, Children, Fall

  "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

  Terence McKenna

  Philosophy, Shamanism, Impulse

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• The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

  Robert Zoellick

  Trying, Helping, Vote

  "Robert Zoellick: “Getting Stuff Done” at the World Bank and Beyond" by Mark V. Vlasic, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.

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• The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Matter, Becoming, Neurology

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• We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.

  Noah Feldman

  Struggle, Thinking, Umpires

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• The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

  Carl Bernstein

  Government, Broken, Three

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• Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

  Norman MacCaig

  Water, Skins, Caves

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• If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

  Charles Jencks

  Self, Tree, Looks

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• Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Unique, Brain, Different

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• There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. Withered leaves crackled and snapped beneath his feet, as he crept softly on towards the house. The desolation of a winter night sat brooding on the earth, and in the sky. But, the red light came cheerily towards him from the windows; figures passed and repassed there; and the hum and murmur of voices greeted his ear sweetly.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Winter, Night

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.184

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• An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

  Charles Dickens

  Skeletons, Wind, Evening

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2697, Delphi Classics

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• I went to work for Catholics United for the Faith, and I basically found myself in the midst of the traditionalist branch of the Catholic revival. There is an intellectual rigor that is very much valued there and that I was in awe of.

  Regina Doman

  Catholic, Intellectual, Revival

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