Branches Quotes
771 quotes by 617 authors
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The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Combinatorics is an honest subject. No adèles, no sigma-algebras. You count balls in a box, and you either have the right number or you haven't.…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves…
— Jacob Grimm
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Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our…
— Paul J. H. Schoemaker
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Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole,…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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In the one branch he most needed
— Henry Adams
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A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds…
— Cyril Connolly
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They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for…
— Frederick Buechner
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Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go.
— Santoka Taneda
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I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the…
— George W. Bush
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Fiction is a branch of neurology
— J. G. Ballard
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All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.
— Jeremy Bentham
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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…
— Raymond Louis Wilder
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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…
— Daniel Tosh
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If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
— Vinoba Bhave
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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…
— Joshilyn Jackson
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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…
— Frank Zappa
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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.…
— Brian Froud
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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…
— Ernst Haeckel
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