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• How to check these unconstitutional invasions of rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Rights, Government

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• The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.

  John Mortimer

  Book, Cutting, Squad

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• And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
  And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
  And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.

  Walt Whitman

  Flower, Feelings, Delight

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.22, Wildside Press LLC

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• The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

  Ted Olson

  Independent, Reality, Government

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• In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Senior, Military, Men

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• Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

  Edwin Meese

  Government, Court, Interpretation

  United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”

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• The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Tree, Forever

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Would Be, Today

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Teenager, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• [Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

  Isaac Asimov

  Impact, Fiction, Literature

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• What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Want, Ends, Endless

  Joseph M. Juran (1995). “Managerial Breakthrough: The Classic Book on Improving Management Performance”

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• The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences.

  Daniel Dennett

  Paleontology, Molecular Biology, Evolution

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• I don't think that I have much power at all, and I don't think that I'm trying to do anything outside of making my fans happy with the music that I write and record and, of course, I want to branch out and I want to have more fans, so I try to get interviews and I try to talk to different outlets and I try to get my music everywhere it can be.

  Steve Grand

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.newnownext.com

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• Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively.

  Mick Garris

  Fighting, Tree, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• It seems that nearly every week there is a problem where information is leaked or computers hacked. I'm conscious of keeping my details as safe as possible. I might be old but I'm still bright and prefer to go into my local branch and see a face.

  Geoff Capes

  Details, Safe, Might

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Mom, Nice, House

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• Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.

  Narendra Modi

  Doors, People, Tasks

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• Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Children, Fiction, Literature

  Thomas M. Disch (2005). “On SF”, p.4, University of Michigan Press

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• If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it." It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives.

  John Amos Comenius

  Art, Men, Long

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• We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Maturity, Roots

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• There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiration, California, Tree

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• Vampires as creatures have evolved over time as different vampire bloodlines have hit different populations of humans. Every once in a while the blood will make something new and mutate into a new species with different powers, abilities, weakness, physical characteristics, and so on. I don't want to give anything away, but there are whole species and branches that date all the way back to pre-modern times.

  Scott Snyder

  Blood, Giving, Vampire

  Source: www.ign.com

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• My father had a very unusual psychic ability, he could detect water. It's called divining. He would use a Y-shaped U-branch, and he could find water with that, which is a very impressive skill in a country where it rains 365 days of the year.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, Father, Rain

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• Spent most of the summer looking for shade. Driving around. Shade. Please? Driving in malls. I'll park a mile away I don't care. I'm just looking for a tree branch, anything. Long weed. Big leaf, get the front corner panel under it. Oh precious shade, I have it - you don't!

  David Spade

  Summer, Weed, Long

  "David Spade: Take the Hit". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

  Hans Haacke

  Art, Thinking, Media

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