"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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"Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil."
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"The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken."
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"To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence."
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"Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do."
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"The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art."
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"You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor."
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"Exaggeration is a branch of lying."
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"Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning."
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"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."
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"How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch."
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"Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha."
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"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."
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"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
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"Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person."
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"The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch."
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