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• There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects and parties in most branches of science [and politics]; and disputes that are carried on from age to age, without being brought to issue.

  Thomas Reid

  Party, Issues, Age

  Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

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• I actually got a part in 'The Love Guru', that Mike Myers film. I heard it's awful. I got a Razzie award for it, which I'm quite proud of, but I still haven't seen it. I have no plans to branch out.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Awards, Proud

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

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• If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Cutting, Government, Tree

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• All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Government, Branches Of Government, Public Trust

  Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843). “Works”, p.423

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• Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

  Raymond Louis Wilder

  Growth, Experience, Today

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• A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Mother, Smart, Book

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• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America.

  Frank Zappa

  Naughty, America, Car

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves. Even the most gnarled tree is eloquent in the telling of its own tale.

  Brian Froud

  Dark, Voice, Roots

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• Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.

  Ernst Haeckel

  Science, Hands, Two

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• It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.

  Andrew of Crete

  Feet, Tree, Coats

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• Childhood is a branch of cartography.

  Michael Chabon

  Childhood, Cartography

  "Manhood for Amateurs: The Wilderness of Childhood". www.nybooks.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

  Ziggy Marley

  Radio, Legends, Way

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

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• Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended.

  Herman Bavinck

  Christian, Tree, Church

  Herman Bavinck (2003). “Reformed Dogmatics : Volume 1: Prolegomena”, p.79, Baker Academic

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• Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Simple, Two, Qigong

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• Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping
  Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star.
  Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried,
  Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

  George Meredith

  Stars, Sunset, Night

  1851 Poems,'Love in the Valley', stanza 5. The poemwas revised and republished in1878.

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• In the storm, like a prophet o'ermaddened, Thou singest and tossest thy branches; Thy heart with the terror is gladdened, Thou forebodest the dread avalanches.... In the calm thou o'erstretchest the valleys With thine arms, as if blessings imploring, Like an old king led forth from his palace, When his people to battle are pouring.

  James Russell Lowell

  Kings, Heart, Blessing

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.176, Delphi Classics

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• Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there among the branches, though as yet it is achieved on only a stray branch, an impatient limb or an occasional small tree which has not yet learned to time its changes.

  Hal Borland

  Autumn, Light, Glowing

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• The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.

  Charles Dickens

  Rain, Night, Weather

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.409

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• Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

  Dante Alighieri

  Doe, Virtue, Trunks

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Meditation, Bliss

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• Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the Administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cutting, Government, Agreement

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address to the Republican-for-Roosevelt League in New York City (November 3, 1932), as quoted in "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932" (p. 857), 1938.

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• I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Simple, Men

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• How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

  Andre Gide

  Maturity, Fruit, Knows

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

  Karl Marx

  Morning, Work, Mind

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
  Whether the summer clothe the general earth
  With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
  Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
  Of mossy apple tree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Summer, Sweet, Apples

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1872). “Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge”, p.113

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