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“Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.”

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“Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, molecular, sub-cellular, and cellular levels. Microscopic movies of these organisms are striking for the ceaseless, rhythmic pulsation that is revealed. In an organism as complex as a human being,…

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To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

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Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

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“Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.”

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The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stoppingshort at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under…

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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles…

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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it…

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“The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches.”

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We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision.

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Certainly in the United States, you have a constituency in the form of the weapons laboratories, and you also have the branches of the…

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The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same…

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