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• It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me.

  Jennifer Carpenter

  Girlfriend, Fun, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Winning, Executive Branch, Whiskers

  Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.2, Macmillan

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• I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

  Adam Driver

  Running, Writing, Want

  "The GQA: Adam Driver". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. November 28, 2012.

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• The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Dad, Book, Men

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• Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

  Jay Griffiths

  Space, Example, Needs

  " The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

  Ann Brashares

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

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• Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Kings, Yoga, Men

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.750, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Hands, People

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.159, Hoover Press

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• I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.

  Rachel Dratch

  Drama, World, Want

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• Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

  Bob Hoskins

  Passion, Physics, Wonderful

  "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.

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• The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice.

  Richard Shusterman

  Philosophy, Self, Practice

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• [T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Ambition, Math, Different

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• Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Wise, Saws, Wise Words

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• I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Responsibility, Government, Office

  "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Senate For Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 13, 2009.

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• All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

  George Harrison

  God, Long, Tree

  "Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead". Book by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, 1970.

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• The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally go where we are not persecuted, and, still persecution is the result of our appearance...By persecution we cannot be exterminated...the strong Jews turn proudly to their race when persecution bursts out. Entire branches of Judaism may disappear, break away; the tree lives.

  Theodor Herzl

  Strong, Race, Numbers

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• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Military, Independent, Media

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• We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Simple, Vines

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• I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Ku Klux Klan, Accepted

  Margaret Sanger (2004). “The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger”, p.366, Courier Corporation

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• The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Art, Children, Practice

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I: "The Education of the Architect", Section 1,

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• The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government.

  Harry Reid

  Father, Government, Abuse

  "How Schumer and Dems may have sealed Gorsuch's confirmation" by Alex Diaz, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2017.

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• Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Real, Giving, Littles

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• My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Mother, Father, World

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 8, 2011.

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• The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Data, Tree, Secret

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• Lord, when my spirit shall return to thee, At the foot of a friendly tree let my body be buried, That this dust may rise and rejoice among the branches.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dust, Feet, Tree

  Henry Van Dyke (2006). “Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressio”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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