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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
Evil
Striking
Thousand
Hacking
Branches
Root
Who
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.
James Madison
Government
People
Power
Several
Constitutional
Only
Charter
Branches
Legitimate
Hold
Which
Them
Derived
Fountain
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir
Enthusiasm
Glorious
Few
Every
Tree
Trees
Waving
Worship
Though
Outer
Silent
Tossing
Minutes
Never
Songs
Excited
Roaring
Like
Bowing
Cease
Branches
Storm
Now
Ear
Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
Ban Ki-moon
Future
Government
Will
Building
National
Society
Local
Local Government
Sector
Cities
Civil
Civil Society
Open
Dialogue
Private
Private Sector
Branches
Sustainable
Regional
Stakeholders
Poor
Engagement
Including
Among
Marginalized
Need
We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
Alan Dershowitz
Government
Balance
School
Important
Other
State
System
Must
Religious
Participate
Check
Checking
Checks
Checks And Balances
Institutions
Academy
Executive
Well
Learn
Balances
Judicial
Branches
Legislative
Include
Each
Media
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
Edsger Dijkstra
Mathematics
Better
Pure
Difficult
Programming
Remain
Had
Most
Mathematicians
Branches
Poorer
Applied
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
Maimonides
Mathematics
Physics
First
Lastly
Must
Logic
Proper
Various
Attain
He
Perfection
Study
Wishes
Metaphysics
Branches
Human
Order
Then
Next
Who
Therefore
Consequently
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
Dorothea Dix
Love
Peace
Victory
Despondency
Pleasure
Has-Been
Willow
Laurel
Poetry
Been
Branch
Branches
Mourning
To Love
Conquest
Olive
Palm
Consecrated
I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.
Edward Steichen
Nature
Light
Plants
Trees
Magician
Had
Stems
Knew
Toward
Reached
Course
Real
Coming
Up
Itself
Branches
Realize
Roots
Bark
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Gore Vidal
Sorry
Both
Could
Taken
Road
Were
Branches
Selves
Multiple
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
David Mamet
Government
Peace
Political
Evil
Power
Greed
Submission
Ways
Recognized
Must
Temper
Only
Various
Individual
Between
Parties
Opposition
Branches
Political Parties
Quite
Literally
Coercion
Founders
Necessary
Necessary Evil
Desires
I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'
Harry Nilsson
Thought
Trees
Everything
Point
Points
Looked
Houses
Came
Branches
Oh
Acid
Little
Realized
Then
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Henri Matisse
Better
Will
Tree
Must
Instinct
Thwarted
Branches
Prune
Just
Grow
When one has taken root, one puts out branches.
Jules Verne
Out
Taken
Puts
Branches
Root
As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.
Nikola Tesla
Nature
Will
Wave
Seems
Tide
Industry
Motion
Branches
Currents
Sway
Electric
Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
Nikola Tesla
Immediately
Promising
Various
Investigation
Perhaps
Most
Dealing
Branches
Currents
Interesting
Electrical
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.
Peter L. Berger
Become
Jobs
Case
Only
Steel
Disappear
Obsolete
Economy
Also
Obviously
Terrible
Industry
Cultures
Branches
Which
Social
Certain
Hardship
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
Alma Gluck
Art
Song
Must
Through
Sincerity
Dead
Leaves
Springtime
Branches
Green
Break
Worker
Naturally
I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.
Amy Klobuchar
Government
Justice
Constitution
Will
Responsibility
Three
Looking
Awesome
Appreciates
Respects
Given
She
Understands
Provides
Very
Branches
Office
Roles
Different
Confirmed
Different Roles
Who
Each
Awesome Responsibility
Gravity
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
Andrei Sakharov
Work
Science
Problems
Important
Some
Cosmology
Shall
Glad
Particles
Make
Concerns
Branches
Contribution
Manage
Theory
Connected
Elementary
Gravitation
Present
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
Andrew Jackson
Government
Business
Legal
Own
Duty
Other
Pursuits
Exclusive
Protecting
Well
None
Leave
Branches
Commerce
Privileges
Capital
Credit
The president's powers are always open to being questioned by the co-equal branches of government.
Ari Melber
Government
President
Open
Powers
Always
Questioned
Branches
Being
The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
Bayard Taylor
Family
Important
Tribes
Division
Most
Also
Branches
Germans
Greeks
Human
The Most Important
Romans
Form
Which
Race
Human Family
Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
Beth Ditto
Babies
Kids
Various
Days
Like
Am
Been
Repeatedly
Friends
Branches
Times
Just
Straight
Plan
Asked
Lesbians
Many
Even
By Congress delegating its authority to the executive and judicial branches, we've removed the American people from the process. They're left as bystanders to the whims of executive overreach, and they're watching the country they know and love slip away. Worse, they think their representatives are powerless to stop it.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Love
People
Country
Congress
Think
Worse
Slip
Know
Powerless
Executive
Judicial
Left
Branches
American
Authority
Representatives
Stop
Process
Whims
American People
Away
Watching
The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.
Chen-Ning Yang
Physics
Group
Main
Became
Branches
Theory
Specialized
Application
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