Theodor Herzl
Journalist, Writer, Political Activist
"If whole branches of Jews must be destroyed, it is worth it, as long as a Jewish state in Palestine is created."
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Branches
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Confucius
Philosopher
"Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves."
Lincoln Chafee
Politician
"In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate."
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots."
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"On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins."
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"If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree."
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"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."
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"Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure."
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"There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves."
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"Have you ever heard the earth breath?"
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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 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories."
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"No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where not endowed with th five cardinal virtues of Confucius-benevolence, justice, courtesy, wisdom and fidelity"
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"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."
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"He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology."
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"There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. We have no reason to be ashamed of that, since the same would hold for many branches of mathematics."
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"I seem restless, but am deeply at ease. Branches tremble; the roots are still."
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"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."
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"O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where naked branches make a fitful shade, And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie."
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"When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science."
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"To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all."
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"A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling."
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"I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me."
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"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."
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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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