172 Quotes About Branches

  • Author Richard Holbrooke
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    We want to change it from a New York institution with regional branches into a global institution with a New York headquarters.

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

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  • Author Donald Johanson
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    All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

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  • Author Henry James
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    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.

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  • Author Sadie Jones
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    We feel the pull of nature very strongly, relating - even unknowingly - feeling in ourselves to bulbs being stirred in frozen ground, or to the branches of dead trees. Perhaps this indivisibility from nature is an important thing to recognize as we go about our business in the world.

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

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  • Author Thomas Jefferson
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    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.

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  • Author Thomas Jefferson
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    [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.

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