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• Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

  Frank Zappa

  Politics, Entertainment, Congress

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

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• My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Feet, Tree

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• When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

  Peter L. Berger

  Jobs, Steel, Culture

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• It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Successful, Two, Government

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• The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner.

  Mary McCarthy

  Art, Brother, People

  "Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue". Mary McCarthy, The Reporter Magazine, July 1950.

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• The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

  Harold H. Greene

  Lying, Real, Independent

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• The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

  William Weld

  Government, Three, Court

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• But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

  Henry Mayhew

  Division, Firsts, Impossible

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• The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

  Julius Streicher

  Roots, Devil, Fitting

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• Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

  Francis Cornford

  Friendship, Art, Lying

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• Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

  Diane Watson

  Halloween, Rights, Majority

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• Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Father, Power, Government

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• I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

  John Pople

  Modern, Scientist, Mathematics

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• The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

  Maria Monk

  Important, Candle

  Maria MONK (1836). “Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc”, p.87

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• Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Hands, Olives

  Yasser Arafat's UN General Assembly speech, November 13, 1974.

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• Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

  Bob Woodward

  Motherhood, Government, Play

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

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• I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Stars, Flower, Past

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

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• The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

  Robert Fortune

  Sap, Flow, Sides

  Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.74

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• Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Thinking, Color, Topics

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• Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Reading, Average

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• Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Exercise, Government, President

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.185, Best Books on

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• Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Book, Mean, Giving

  Thomas Bulfinch (1855). “The Age of Fable: Or, Beauties of Mythology”, p.4

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• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Giving Up, Science

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

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• In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Simplicity, Mind, Demand

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.12, Kregel Publications

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