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“Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.”

Light Sides Morning Tree Enormous Branches Gray Veins Twigs Meticulous Bare Branches

Author:John Banville

“Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.”

Used Ill Branches Astrology

Book:The Astrology of the Four Horsemen: How You Can Heal Yourself and Planet Earth

Source: The Astrology of the Four Horsemen: How You Can Heal Yourself and Planet Earth

“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.”

“Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.”

Heart Stills Dream Past Young Joy Growth Memories United Our Lives Scene Chains Bliss Branches Silver Linked Chords Vines Sprung Fostering

Author:Alan Cooper

“Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.”

Mind Left Hair Cold Gold Blind Wings Shining Woods Flying Dust Branches Dull Grey My Thoughts Of My Mind Dripping Cocoons Brushing Gold Dust

Book:Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)

Source: Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)

“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source: 55 Men, Story of Constitution

“As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.”

May Yoga Branches Adaptation Vary Trunks

Book:Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 7

Source: Astadala Yogamala (Collected Works), Volume 7

“The act of the soul, in surrendering itself into the hands of Christ, forms a connecting bond between Him as the Vine and the soul as the branches, which communicates life, strength, nourishment, and beauty. In a word, with a just view of the character, and a supreme attachment to the person of Christ, the believer yields himself into His hands as a full and complete Saviour. Him he receives; upon Him he rests, and rests for time and eternity.”

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.”

Thinking Mind Humans Form Universe Subjects Materials Mathematics Various Wide Range Manifestation Branches Appropriate Human Mind Corresponding Human Thought Enquiry

Author:Benjamin Peirce

“In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.”

Wells Law Purpose Certain Cases Theory Structure Connected Aids Physics Branches Phenomenon Investigation Hypothesis Occult Thermodynamics Elasticity

Book:A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine

Source: A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine

“The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.”

Source: A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine

“While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.”

Office Foundation Investing Profit Branches Reconstruction Kosovo Balkans Financiers Non Profit Investing Money

Author:Michel Chossudovsky

“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.”

“At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches of science, mathematics and theoretical physics, which ... offer a less distorted form of knowledge than other branches of science which are interwoven with the pattern of daily life, and the practicality of which seemingly testifies to their realistic character.”

Source: Critical Theory: Selected Essays

“Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life after the techniques of the laboratory, is the counterpart of modern industrialism, for which the factory is the prototype of human existence, and which models all branches of culture after production on the conveyor belt.”

Source: EPZ Eclipse of Reason

“The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.”

Men Government Grows Nice Imagine Checks Branches Amendments Fourth Imagine That Naive Fourth Amendment Nice Man

Author:Ilana Mercer

“So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.”

People Way Giving Whole Form Sky Quiet Summer Whole Life Branches Colour Subtle Delicate December Vistas

Author:Flora Thompson

“He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.”

May Attention Wise Claims Branches

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system”

Humans Psychology Civilization Directors Limits Capacity Productions Driven Physics Servant Branches Biology Goods Chemistry Technological Machinery Multiplying

Author:Charles A. Beard

“The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance”

People Hands Certain Imagination Religious Forget Clear Ignorance Intellectual Boundaries Theology Branches Science And Religion Comprehension Provinces Susceptible Antagonism Short Sighted

Book:Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

Source: Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions

“Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land”

Heart Children Self Land Grew Self Love Roots Spread Seeds Branches Love Of Money Kuwait Roots And Branches

Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“Kuwait is our haven which God has given us, the home he granted us.. Kuwait is our origins and branches, security and resolution, protection and glory.. The past, present and future.”

Home Past Given Security Havens Glory Protection Granted Branches Resolution Past Present Past Present And Future Kuwait

Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.”

Roots Branches Regulation Devoted Kuwait

Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.”

Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

“. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout.”

Tree Sea Rivers Lips Fishes Spending Boat Branches Lakes Fishing More Time Trout

Author:Tom Sutcliffe

“Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.”

Has Beens Two Lasts Social Decades Senses Branches Historian Pirate Social History

Book:The Pirate Wars

Source: The Pirate Wars

“A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes

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

Important Branches Candle

Book:Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc

Source: Awful Disclosures ... of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal. Revised with an appendix, etc

“In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.”

Men Wells Littles Country Politics Wealth Levels Economy Industry Cost Democratic Branches Liberalism Productive Elsewhere Democratic Country

Book:Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

“It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism.”

Facts Earth Numbers Support Atheism Acceptance Theory Depends Evolution Shapes Evidence Notion Proof Branches Flats Stature Biological Science

Author:Peter Medawar

“You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.”

Giving Too Much Balance Resources Concerned Fundamentals Branches Executives Founders Unlimited Unlimited Power Balance Of Power Executive Branch Too Much Power

Author:Mike Huckabee

“Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it.”

Law President Understood Court Supreme Branches Executives Supreme Court Legislature Executive Branch President Lincoln

Author:Mike Huckabee

“The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.”

Two Government Three Subjects Equal Court Notion Sake Come Up Following Supreme Branches Supreme Court Ruling Supreme Being Branches Of Government

Author:Mike Huckabee

“We are sworn to uphold the Constitution and law. And it has to be consistent and agreed upon with three branches of government - one can't overrule the other two.”

Two Government Law Three Constitution Branches Consistent Branches Of Government Three Branches Of Government

Author:Mike Huckabee

“I have fashion designers that I definitely respect. After working for a few years in the industry, you want to branch out and do your own thing and I think that's something that has always been important to me is strengthening the brand and just sticking to "this is who we are, this is our identity, this is who we're going to be". I definitely respect other designers but I don't necessarily have one that I look up to.”

Thinking Want Years Looks Important Fashion Identity Industry Brands Designer Branches Look Up Who We Are Respecting Others Strengthening Fashion Designer

Author:Lauren Conrad

“The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king.”

People Way Country Reason Government Form Failing Influence Kings Needed Balance Shapes Protect Congress Checks Ass Corporations Branches Cash Branches Of Government

Author:Immortal Technique

“When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.”

People Looks Stills Play Political Belief Language Process Walks Congress Branches Executives Spinning Executive Branch No Trust

Author:David Gregory

“Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.”

Needs Mankind Pure Draws Roots Fruit Selfishness Branches Gratuity

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?”

Thinking Men Way Lasts Life Is Space Mistake Break Tree Cry Proud Bird Sight Fishes Wounds One Way Posts Branches Desperate Swim Fence Things Change Another Way Holding On Proud Man Fence Post

Author:Tim Finn

“We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.”

Two Grows Tree Roots Fallen Branches

Author:Louis de Bernieres

“I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes.”

I Can Bits Walks Minutes Branches Circus Oxford Pigeons Ferrets Topshop

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.”

States Whole Government Simple Branches Department Federal Government Coordinates

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to small groups of scholars and specialists. Economics deals with society's fundamental problems; it concerns everyone and belongs to all. It is the main and proper study of every citizen.”

Facts Problem Deals Study Groups Citizens Concern Economics Fundamentals Branches Scholar Specialists Small Groups Esoteric

Book:Human Action

Source: Human Action

“The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.”

Differences Special Talent Genius Command Former Branches Latter Faculty Tact Talent And Genius

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.”

“It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.”

Men Long Has Beens Said Whole Together Sex Hours Talking Known Figures Honor Praise China Cups Servant Branches Rhetoric Dissertation

Author:Joseph Addison

“[On James Gould Cozzens' By Love Possessed:] It is a vast enterprise encompassing all sorts of love, except, naturally, those branches which extend to Jews, Negroes, and people who have lost track of their great-grandparents.”

People Lost Track Jew Branches Enterprise Bigotry Possessed Grandparent Great Grandparents

Author:Dorothy Parker

“There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.”

Fall Cutting Connections Vices Branches Trunks

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Subjects

“Be not too slow in the breaking of a sinful custom; a quick, courageous resolution is better than a gradual deliberation; in such a combat he is the bravest soldier that lays about him without fear or wit. Wit pleads, fear disheartens; he that would kill Hydra had better strike off one neck than five heads: fell the tree, and the branches are soon cut off.”

Five Cutting Tree Lays Soldier Strikes Wit Branches Necks Courageous Resolution Customs Combat Deliberation Hydra

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.”

Humans Faces Certain Sides Lines Perfect Beauty Source All Things Branches Leafs Deficiency Symmetry Human Faces Irregularity Signs Of Life

Book:On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].

Source: On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].