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• Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.

  Angela Carter

  Country, Rain, Unique

  Angela Carter (2016). “Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories”, p.81, Random House

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• What can the dove of Jesus give
  You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
  The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.

  Robert Lowell

  Wisdom, Jesus, Giving

  Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: A Tribute”

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• We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Giving Up, Inquiry, Matter

  "Elementary Principles in Statististical Mechanics". Book by J. Willard Gibbs (Preface, p. 9), 1902.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

  William Fogg Osgood

  Physics, Geometry

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• Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Crazy, Moving

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• When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

  Gerald Durrell

  Men, Saws, Protection

  Gerald Durrell (2011). “The Stationary Ark”, p.5, Pan Macmillan

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• In the battlefield men grapple each other and die;
  The horses of the vanquished utter lamentable cries to heaven,
  While ravens and kites peck at human entrails,
  Carry them up in their flight, and hang them on the branches of dead trees.

  Li Bai

  Veterans Day, Horse, Men

  Li Po, “Nefarious War”

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• Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Roots, People, Propose

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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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• I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

  Joseph Morgan

  Character, Television, Periods

  Source: collider.com

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• Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tree, Different, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question.

  Mike Huckabee

  Balance, Fundamentals, Three

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. September 6, 2015.

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• All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tree, Religion, Sake

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

  Tony Abbott

  Roots, Reform, Way

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. August 09, 2015.

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• Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

  George E. P. Box

  Believe, Engineering, Statistics

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• I am one who believes that the people's views and values are represented by those who they elect in the legislative branch and not unelected federal judges appointed for life.

  George Allen

  Believe, Views, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  New York, People, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time.

  Marcus Dunstan

  Believe, Glasses, Light

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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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• And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Opinion, Authority

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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