"There are a thousand hacking at the branches……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history,… — Charles Babbage
• The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far… — Michele Bachmann
• Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what… — Jello Biafra
• The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy.… — Julian Bond
• Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books… — Anthony Burgess
• The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush
• You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you… — Rosalynn Carter
• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the… — Marc Chagall
• Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple… — Lord Chesterfield
• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not… — Kate Chopin
• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let… — Yasser Arafat
• As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay,… — Frederick William Robertson

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