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• About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Humility, Pride, Fruit

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• The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art.

  Michelangelo

  Art, Drawing, Hands

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• The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our ideas of the correlation of organic bodies will be swayed by our knowledge of the history of evolution. To carry the proof of it into all branches of research would be an almost endless task. (1828)

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Real, Science, Light

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• Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of vallies, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these vallies were not the work of the stream that flows in it.

  John Playfair

  Running, Nice, Hard Work

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• To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about.

  James R Newman

  Knowledge, Math, Talking

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.1200, Рипол Классик

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• On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Knowledge, Fake, Mathematics

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• In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory.

  Martin Gardner

  Education, Math, Probability Theory

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• Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

  Kathleen Raine

  War, Sleep, Fire

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• Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves for the sun? You did none of these things, yet man in his cleverness Cannot match your perfection.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Men, Perfection, Tree

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• To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they seemed to die and come again to life in spring, the sudden growth of the plant from the seed - all these appeared to be miracles as indeed they still are, miracles of nature!

  Ruskin Bond

  Spring, Men, Awe And Wonder

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• Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Angel, Winter, Night

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.

  Octavio Paz

  Dark, Wind, Tree

  Octavio Paz (1979). “A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems”, p.51, New Directions Publishing

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• When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms, thinking of nothing, cramming the black honey of summer into my mouth; all day my body accepts what it is. In the dark creeks that run by there is this thick paw of my life darting among the black bells, the leaves; there is this happy tongue.

  Mary Oliver

  Summer, Running, Dark

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

  Rudy Rucker

  Science, Drawing, Space

  Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (1985). “The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Numbers, Tree

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• If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Powerful, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.76

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• Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Unique, Tree

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Thinking, Men, Justice

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (3), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves, and then sleep in the earth. And when we're there, we'll belong, 'cause the earth don't give a damn if you're lost.

  Radical Face

  Sleep, Cutting, Giving

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• Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Animal, Garden, Ponds

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• It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics.

  Hermann Weyl

  Attitude, Real, Drawing

  Hermann Weyl, Frank Wilczek (2009). “Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science”, p.235, Princeton University Press

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• What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years.

  Keith Olbermann

  Hate, Oklahoma City, Blood

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• The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.

  Avro Manhattan

  Real, Government, Oil

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• Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?

  Don Williams

  Hatred, Olive Branches, Fists

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• The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Art, Food, Numbers

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