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And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same: / And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof: / Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.

[T]he different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition [G]eometry is not true, it is advantageous.

The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived, it seems strictly consonant to the republican theory, to recur to the same original authority, not only whenever it may be necessary to enlarge, diminish, or new-model the powers of the government, but also whenever any one of the departments may commit encroachments on the chartered authorities of the others.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

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.

That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.

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

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.

We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and every action must proceed from the interests of the whole Party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

I wanted to branch out into American television, specifically because you get to develop a character for a longer period of time and you get to develop a relationship with the audience.

The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.

The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch.

I feed the branches of the people.

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

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.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.

What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.

Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody.

The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

I just want to make good music that, you know, appeals to all people, man. I want to branch out and you know just have a lot of multiplatinum albums.

I want to note that, historically, the make-up of the court has changed just as elected branches have change.

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

There are some branches that are closed, but as I said 90% are still open.

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

Exaggeration is a branch of lying.

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.

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.

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

There are a thousand at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

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.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue.

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing.

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

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

[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.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins