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My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
Christian de Duve
Education
School
Humanities
Ancient
Strongly
More
Had
Attended
Attracted
Tradition
Been
According
Branches
Literary
Centered
Which
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
David Hilbert
Science
Construction
Harmoniously
Relations
Further
More
Developed
Between
Does
Mathematical
Branches
Hitherto
Proceed
Separated
Theory
One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with branches across the world. It is the Round Table that ultimately orchestrates the network of the Bilderberg Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
David Icke
World
Important
Group
Relations
Secret
Table
Network
Council
Institute
Most
Foreign
Affairs
Ultimately
Branches
Commission
The Most Important
Century
Across
International
International Affairs
Round
Based
Societies
Royal
Britain
Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.
David Novak
Live
Although
Without
Branches
Cannot
Roots
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
Dennis Rodman
Old
Tree
Feet
Like
Branches
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
Dian Fossey
Building
Trees
Nest
Supplied
Material
Climb
Bamboo
Branches
Available
Should
Captive
Straw
All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
Donald Johanson
Family
Degree
Tree
Darwin
Drew
Diversification
Had
He
Knew
Undergo
Branches
Mammals
Certain
Certain Degree
Many
I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
Ed Speleers
Sometimes
Country
Living
Strip
Out
Country Boy
Along
Town
House
Boy
Mixture
Up
Branches
Grew
Really
Coast
England
Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government.
Elizabeth Flock
Government
Constitution
Rights
Three
First
Half
Those
More
Only
First Amendment
Name
Know
Quarter
Branches
Than
Amendment
American
Any
Guaranteed
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the main tree of the life of music, American music, which is jazz.
Eric Burdon
Life
Music
You
Mother
Jazz
Tree
Everything
Rap
All-American
Main
Know
Branches
American
Which
American Music
Pop
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Federico Garcia Lorca
You
Wind
How
Branches
Green
Want
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Gilbert Highet
Old
Language
Drop
Big
Become
Living
Changing
Out
Bud
Feel
New
Pieces
Parts
Spread
Leaves
Off
Branches
Forgotten
Thing
Living Thing
The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
Harold H. Greene
Constitution
Words
Other
States
Independent
Lies
Clause
Fact
Individuals
Between
Real
Real Difference
Preamble
Branches
Beholden
Nations
Difference
Substantive
Elected
Enforced
United
United States
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
Henry Mayhew
Impossible
First
System
Minutes
Seems
Divisions
Almost
Industry
Reduce
Branches
Labour
Any
Manifold
Them
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
J. Reuben Clark
Genius
Independence
Possessed
Marvellous
Document
Executive
Judicial
Branches
Legislative
Dependence
Them
Union
Each
Functions
Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
Jello Biafra
Good
Women
People
Islam
Other
Indefensible
Respecting
Draw
Some
Well
Line
Cultures
Branches
Where
There's no traditional three act structure - or beginning, middle and end - to a family tree. By its nature, it has almost infinite different branches, or episodes, to explore in every direction.
Jim Piddock
Family
Nature
Three
Beginning
Every
Tree
Structure
Direction
Almost
Traditional
End
Branches
Infinite
Middle
Different
Episodes
Act
Explore
Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion.
John Hull
Reflect
Tree
Changes
Our
Extreme
Shape
Reached
Parts
Accommodate
Yes
Branches
Center
Curve
Pattern
Interesting
Mean
Zero
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
John Pople
Mathematics
Pure
Changed
Increasingly
Follow
Some
More
Could
Had
Longer
Practicing
Scientist
Mathematician
Branches
Modern
Being
The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.
John Witherspoon
Character
People
Ought
Those
Moral
Moral Character
General
Invest
Executive
Judicial
Branches
Authority
Legislative
Regard
Either
Whom
Manhattan is just all bank branches.
Jonathan Franzen
Branches
Bank
Just
Manhattan
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect individual liberty - it's there to protect us from the concentration of power.
Jonathan Turley
People
Liberty
Power
Separation
About
Seem
Individual
Individual Liberty
Concentration
Protect
Powers
Understand
Branches
Us
But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.
Julian Bond
Time
Our
Finances
Worst
Scandals
Plugging
NAACP
Well
Doing
Were
Branches
Height
Even
Grassroots
Away
Kept
Although technology has been playing a key role in filmmaking, I feel there are plenty of opportunities in other branches of filmdom.
Karthik Subbaraj
Technology
Key
Opportunities
Other
Plenty
Has-Been
Feel
Although
Been
Branches
Role
Playing
Filmmaking
I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?
Kate Chopin
Music
You
Wind
Tree
Else
Strikes
Earth
Spheres
Minor
Detect
Sharpened
Major
Heard
Wonder
Branches
Anyone
Anyone Else
Tuned
Subtleties
Breathe
Chord
Ever
Ear
India offers exciting business opportunities owing to the growth in corporate travel and a significant middle-class population waiting to explore the world. To begin with, Travelex is setting up eight city centre branches in metros and other major cities including tourist destinations.
Lloyd Dorfman
Travel
Business
Waiting
World
Opportunities
Setting
Other
Corporate
Destinations
Cities
Significant
India
City
Tourist
Exciting
Major
Up
Branches
Begin
Offers
Owing
Eight
Centre
Explore
Business Opportunities
Including
Population
Growth
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