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• Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Spiritual, Sadness

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• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Flower, Men

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• Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.

  Larry Gates

  Life, Art, Egypt

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• I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.

  John Muir

  Memories, Cutting, Nursing

  John Muir, William Frederic Badè (1998). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.

  Bernie Worrell

  Long, Taught, Jersey

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• First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

  Martin Luther

  Encouragement, Fall, Apples

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• Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Cutting, Political, Social Reform

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.23, Transaction Publishers

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• I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit.

  Christian Slater

  Fun, Thinking, Games

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

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• The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Strong, Stupid, Arrogant

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  Yasser Arafat

  Fall, Islamic, Gun

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

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• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

  Charles Babbage

  Medicine, Chemistry, Natural

  Charles Babbage (1830). “Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes”, p.12

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• The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Writing, Law

  "The Gaffes of George W. Bush" by William Saletan, Avi Zenilman, www.slate.com. October 8, 2003.

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• The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

  Paul Dirac

  Numbers, Theoretical Physics, Essentials

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• I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Growing Up, Writing

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• I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, "Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it".

  Harry Nilsson

  House, Tree, Littles

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

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• To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

  Thomas Paine

  Funny, Motivation, War

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.160

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• When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Comedy, Action, Wells

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• One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Bifurcation, Use, Development

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• It is the worst of all superstitions to assume that the epistemological characteristics of one branch of knowledge must necessarily be applicable to any other branch.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Superstitions, Assuming, Characteristics

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

  Sophocles

  Winter, Yield, Rivers

  Haemon speaking. Antigone,712-14 (translated by H Lloyd- Jones,1994).

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• Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think.

  Thomas Gray

  Thinking, Water, Rude

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.11-16.

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• We came from many roots, and we have many branches.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Roots

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

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• Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze,
  but as they sway they connect at the roots.

  Rumi

  Moving, Roots, Forests

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• If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Space, Views, Sky

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