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• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Important, Society

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  Robert Frost

  Climbing, White, Snow

  Mountain Interval (1916) "Birches"

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• The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

  Julian Bond

  Atlanta, Class, Guy

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• Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fitness, Perseverance, Exercise

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• Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Mathematics, Programming, Difficult

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.129, Springer Science & Business Media

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• For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Roots, Growth, Crowns

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Jewels

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.5

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• Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

  Aleister Crowley

  Art, Opportunity, Errors

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• Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.

  Lewis Carroll

  Education, Ambition, Turtles

  Lewis Carroll (1992). “Alice in Wonderland”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

  Homer

  Lying, Garden, Blue

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• You know the Zen question, 'The Bodhisattva of Great Mercy' has a thousand hands and a thousand eyes; 'which is the true eye?' I could not understand this for a long time. But the other day, when I looked at the pine trees bending before the cold blasts from the mountain, I suddenly realized the meaning. You see, all the boughs, branches, twigs, and leaves simultaneously bend to the wind with tremendous vigor.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Eye, Hands, Wind

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• I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Law, Differences

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• The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
  The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Christmas, Wall, Hollies

  "The Mistletoe Bough". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Dog, Horse, Rain

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.

  James R Newman

  Math, Groups, Doe

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1534, Рипол Классик

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• Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Law, Language, Rational

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• Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

  Ogden Nash

  Wind, Tree

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• My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand.

  William of Ockham

  Summer, Song, Morning

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• Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Exaggeration Is, Exaggeration

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• What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Creativity, Expression

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.11, Tuttle Publishing

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• Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.

  Jello Biafra

  People, Islam, Culture

  "Nardwuar Vs. Jello Biafra: New Introduction by Kristen K". Interview with Nardwuar, razorcake.org. December 27, 2012.

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• The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

  David Hilbert

  Math, Science, Doe

  "Mathematical Problems". Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris, translated by Maby Winton Newson, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1900.

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• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  Maimonides

  Order, Perfection, Wish

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.298, Moses Maimonides

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• We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Education, Mistake, Giving

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1971). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch.

  Bob Woodward

  Work, Believe, Independent

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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