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• ...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Memories, Compassion, Curves

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• The dollar is the final term in almost every equation which arises in the practice of engineering in any or all of its branches, except qualifiedly as to military and naval engineering, where in some cases cost may be ignored.

  Henry R. Towne

  Military, Engineering, Practice

  "Industrial Engineering". An Address Delivered at the Purdue University, February 24, 1905.

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• More warnings issued by all branches of the government today that another terrorist attack is imminent. We're not sure when, we're not sure where, just that it is coming. Who is attacking us now, the cable company?

  Jay Leno

  Government, Attacking Us, Warning

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• It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Practice, Honor

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• Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.

  Wesley Pruden

  Math, Thinking, Government

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• I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.

  P. L. Travers

  Dog, Men, Views

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• We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have sprung immediately from those embryos whence our parents were developed, and these from the embryos of their parents, and so on for ever. We should in this way look on the nature of mankind, and perhaps on that of the whole animated creation, as one Continuous System, ever pushing out new branches in all directions, that variously interlace, and that bud into separate lives at every point of interlacement.

  Francis Galton

  Views, Parent, Bud

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• Residues arise... naturally in several branches of analysis... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results...

  Augustin-Louis Cauchy

  Simple, Numbers, Analysis

  "Oeuvres completes". Book by Augustin-Louis Cauchy (Serie 2, Tome 6, "Sur un nouveau genre de calcul analogue au Calcul infinitésimal", pp. 23-37, translated), 1826.

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• The first ten amendments were proposed and adopted largely because of fear that Government might unduly interfere with prized individual liberties. The people wanted and demanded a Bill of Rights written into their Constitution. The amendments embodying the Bill of Rights were intended to curb all branches of the Federal Government in the fields touched by the amendments-Legislative, Executive, and Judicial.

  Hugo Black

  Rights, Government, People

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• This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Believe, Mathematics, Results

  Writings of Charles. Sanders Peirce Volume 3 (p. 279)

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• Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow
  because even today I still arrive.
  Look at me: I arrive in every second
  to be a bud on a spring branch,
  to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile,
  learning to sing in my new nest,
  to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
  to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spring, Flower, Learning

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• It is a great mistake for presidents and other leading executives of organizations having branches throughout the country to chain themselves to their desks at headquarters and send out rigid instructions to those in charge of distant branches and offices. Because a man sits in a palatial office in New York or Chicago or Philadelphia or Detroit and draws a big salary, it does not necessarily follow that he knows better than the man on the spot what ought to be done.... Paul, Caesar, Napoleon did not merely sit at home and issue long-range instructions.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, New York, Mistake

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• The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.

  B. C. Forbes

  Photography, Moving, Thinking

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• Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Advice, Trying, Saws

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• How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.

  Mary Davys

  Children, Women, Blood

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• Banking is a branch of the information business.

  Walter Wriston

  Banking, Information

  1986 Risk and Other Four-Letters Words.

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• All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Texas, Iowa, People

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• It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

  A.J. Ayer

  Ethics, Sociology, Department

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• What is surprising is that almost all the trends that developed within the sciences, Aristotelianism and an extreme Platonism included, produced results, not only in special domains, but everywhere; there exist highly theoretical branches of biology and highly empirical parts of astrophysics. The world is a complex an many-sided thing.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Special, World, Trends

  "Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Richness". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1999.

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• And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Night, World, Following

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Meaning”

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• Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

  Saadi

  Roots, Sky, Tree

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.147, Innovations and Information

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• Blessed be the discipline which makes me reach out my soul's roots into closer union with Jesus! Blessed be the dews of the Spirit which keep my leaf ever green! Blessed be the trials which shake down the ripe, golden fruits from the branches.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Jesus, Blessed, Roots

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 585), 1895.

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• Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Sacrifice, Roots, Grace

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1853). “Parochial sermons”, p.160

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• the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

  Cathy Davidson

  Mother, Children, Spring

  Cathy N. Davidson (2006). “36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan”, p.21, Duke University Press

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• The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ...
  A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

  Julian Coolidge

  Art, Curves, Planes

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