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AUTH

BOOKS
Branching_Streams_flow_in_the_darkness
City_of_God
DND_DM_Guide_5E
Full_Circle
General_Principles_of_Kabbalah
Heart_of_Matter
Infinite_Library
Let_Me_Explain
Liber_157_-_The_Tao_Teh_King
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
My_Burning_Heart
Process_and_Reality
Savitri
The_Categories
The_Divine_Comedy
The_Divine_Milieu
The_Golden_Bough
The_Imitation_of_Christ
The_Republic
The_Seals_of_Wisdom
The_Tarot_of_Paul_Christian
The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History
The_Way_of_Perfection
The_Wit_and_Wisdom_of_Alfred_North_Whitehead
The_Yoga_Sutras
Toward_the_Future

IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.22_-_Ciampolo,_Friar_Gomita,_and_Michael_Zanche._The_Malabranche_quarrel.
1.23_-_Escape_from_the_Malabranche._The_Sixth_Bolgia__Hypocrites._Catalano_and_Loderingo._Caiaphas.
2.08_-_The_Branches_of_The_Archetypal_Man

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
01.07_-_Blaise_Pascal_(1623-1662)
0_1958-11-04_-_Myths_are_True_and_Gods_exist_-_mental_formation_and_occult_faculties_-_exteriorization_-_work_in_dreams
0_1960-05-24_-_supramental_flood
0_1962-02-03
0_1967-07-15
0_1969-12-31
0_1970-01-17
0_1971-10-27
0_1972-04-26
0_1972-05-17
0_1972-12-06
02.03_-_An_Aspect_of_Emergent_Evolution
02.06_-_Boris_Pasternak
02.10_-_Two_Mystic_Poems_in_Modern_Bengali
02.12_-_The_Ideals_of_Human_Unity
03.04_-_The_Vision_and_the_Boon
03.08_-_The_Standpoint_of_Indian_Art
03.11_-_The_Language_Problem_and_India
03.13_-_Human_Destiny
04.01_-_The_Birth_and_Childhood_of_the_Flame
04.08_-_An_Evolutionary_Problem
05.02_-_Satyavan
05.03_-_Bypaths_of_Souls_Journey
05.03_-_Satyavan_and_Savitri
05.08_-_An_Age_of_Revolution
06.01_-_The_Word_of_Fate
06.10_-_Fatigue_and_Work
06.30_-_Sweet_Holy_Tears
06.31_-_Identification_of_Consciousness
07.04_-_The_Triple_Soul-Forces
07.44_-_Music_Indian_and_European
08.03_-_Death_in_the_Forest
08.09_-_Spirits_in_Trees
09.01_-_Towards_the_Black_Void
10.02_-_The_Gospel_of_Death_and_Vanity_of_the_Ideal
10.04_-_Lord_of_Time
1.00d_-_Introduction
1.00e_-_DIVISION_E_-_MOTION_ON_THE_PHYSICAL_AND_ASTRAL_PLANES
1.00_-_Main
1.01_-_About_the_Elements
1.01_-_Adam_Kadmon_and_the_Evolution
1.01_-_A_NOTE_ON_PROGRESS
1.01_-_BOOK_THE_FIRST
1.01_-_Economy
1.01_-_Maitreya_inquires_of_his_teacher_(Parashara)
1.01_-_Newtonian_and_Bergsonian_Time
1.01_-_On_Love
1.01_-_THAT_ARE_THOU
1.01_-_The_First_Steps
1.01_-_The_King_of_the_Wood
1.01_-_The_Path_of_Later_On
1.01_-_THE_STUFF_OF_THE_UNIVERSE
1.01_-_To_Watanabe_Sukefusa
10.23_-_Prayers_and_Meditations_of_the_Mother
1.02.4.2_-_Action_and_the_Divine_Will
10.24_-_Savitri
10.27_-_Consciousness
1.02_-_BOOK_THE_SECOND
1.02_-_IN_THE_COMPANY_OF_DEVOTEES
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.02_-_Priestly_Kings
1.02_-_SOCIAL_HEREDITY_AND_PROGRESS
1.02_-_Substance_Is_Eternal
1.02_-_The_Pit
1.02_-_The_Refusal_of_the_Call
10.35_-_The_Moral_and_the_Spiritual
1.03_-_BOOK_THE_THIRD
1.03_-_Concerning_the_Archetypes,_with_Special_Reference_to_the_Anima_Concept
1.03_-_Hymns_of_Gritsamada
1.03_-_Invocation_of_Tara
1.03_-_Of_some_imperfections_which_some_of_these_souls_are_apt_to_have,_with_respect_to_the_second_capital_sin,_which_is_avarice,_in_the_spiritual_sense
1.03_-_PERSONALITY,_SANCTITY,_DIVINE_INCARNATION
1.03_-_Reading
1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic
1.03_-_The_Gate_of_Hell._The_Inefficient_or_Indifferent._Pope_Celestine_V._The_Shores_of_Acheron._Charon._The
1.03_-_THE_GRAND_OPTION
1.03_-_The_Phenomenon_of_Man
1.03_-_The_Sephiros
1.03_-_To_Layman_Ishii
1.03_-_Yama_and_Niyama
1.04_-_BOOK_THE_FOURTH
1.04_-_Magic_and_Religion
1.04_-_Of_other_imperfections_which_these_beginners_are_apt_to_have_with_respect_to_the_third_sin,_which_is_luxury.
1.04_-_On_blessed_and_ever-memorable_obedience
1.04_-_THE_APPEARANCE_OF_ANOMALY_-_CHALLENGE_TO_THE_SHARED_MAP
1.04_-_The_Divine_Mother_-_This_Is_She
1.04_-_The_Paths
1.04_-_The_Qabalah__The_Best_Training_for_Memory
1.04_-_To_the_Priest_of_Rytan-ji
1.057_-_The_Four_Manifestations_of_Ignorance
1.05_-_ADVICE_FROM_A_CATERPILLAR
1.05_-_Dharana
1.05_-_Hymns_of_Bharadwaja
1.05_-_Mental_Education
1.05_-_Qualifications_of_the_Aspirant_and_the_Teacher
1.05_-_Some_Results_of_Initiation
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.05_-_The_Magical_Control_of_the_Weather
1.05_-_The_New_Consciousness
1.05_-_The_Universe__The_0_=_2_Equation
1.06_-_Being_Human_and_the_Copernican_Principle
1.06_-_Iconography
1.06_-_MORTIFICATION,_NON-ATTACHMENT,_RIGHT_LIVELIHOOD
1.06_-_Origin_of_the_four_castes
1.06_-_Psycho_therapy_and_a_Philosophy_of_Life
1.06_-_The_Breaking_of_the_Limits
1.06_-_The_Literal_Qabalah
1.06_-_THE_MASTER_WITH_THE_BRAHMO_DEVOTEES
1.06_-_Yun_Men's_Every_Day_is_a_Good_Day
1.07_-_BOOK_THE_SEVENTH
1.07_-_Note_on_the_word_Go
1.07_-_Savitri
1.07_-_The_Fire_of_the_New_World
1.07_-_THE_GREAT_EVENT_FORESHADOWED_-_THE_PLANETIZATION_OF_MANKIND
1.07_-_THE_MASTER_AND_VIJAY_GOSWAMI
1.07_-_TRUTH
1.081_-_The_Application_of_Pratyahara
1.08a_-_The_Ladder
1.08_-_BOOK_THE_EIGHTH
1.08_-_The_Change_of_Vision
1.08_-_The_Depths_of_the_Divine
1.08_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.09_-_BOOK_THE_NINTH
1.09_-_FAITH_IN_PEACE
1.09_-_Legend_of_Lakshmi
1.09_-_Saraswati_and_Her_Consorts
1.09_-_SELF-KNOWLEDGE
1.09_-_SKIRMISHES_IN_A_WAY_WITH_THE_AGE
1.09_-_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Big_Bang
1.09_-_Taras_Ultimate_Nature
1.09_-_The_Chosen_Ideal
1.09_-_The_Furies_and_Medusa._The_Angel._The_City_of_Dis._The_Sixth_Circle__Heresiarchs.
1.09_-_The_Worship_of_Trees
11.01_-_The_Eternal_Day__The_Souls_Choice_and_the_Supreme_Consummation
11.07_-_The_Labours_of_the_Gods:_The_five_Purifications
1.10_-_BOOK_THE_TENTH
1.10_-_Relics_of_Tree_Worship_in_Modern_Europe
1.10_-_THE_FORMATION_OF_THE_NOOSPHERE
1.10_-_THE_MASTER_WITH_THE_BRAHMO_DEVOTEES_(II)
1.10_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.10_-_The_Yoga_of_the_Intelligent_Will
11.14_-_Our_Finest_Hour
11.15_-_Sri_Aurobindo
1.11_-_BOOK_THE_ELEVENTH
1.11_-_FAITH_IN_MAN
1.11_-_Oneness
1.11_-_The_Three_Purushas
1.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.11_-_Works_and_Sacrifice
1.12_-_BOOK_THE_TWELFTH
1.12_-_ON_THE_FLIES_OF_THE_MARKETPLACE
1.13_-_BOOK_THE_THIRTEENTH
1.13_-_On_despondency.
1.13_-_SALVATION,_DELIVERANCE,_ENLIGHTENMENT
1.13_-_The_Kings_of_Rome_and_Alba
1.13_-_The_Lord_of_the_Sacrifice
1.13_-_THE_MASTER_AND_M.
1.13_-_The_Wood_of_Thorns._The_Harpies._The_Violent_against_themselves._Suicides._Pier_della_Vigna._Lano_and_Jacopo_da_Sant'_Andrea.
1.14_-_INSTRUCTION_TO_VAISHNAVS_AND_BRHMOS
1.14_-_Noise
1.14_-_The_Secret
1.14_-_The_Succesion_to_the_Kingdom_in_Ancient_Latium
1.15_-_On_incorruptible_purity_and_chastity_to_which_the_corruptible_attain_by_toil_and_sweat.
1.15_-_The_Supramental_Consciousness
1.15_-_The_world_overrun_with_trees;_they_are_destroyed_by_the_Pracetasas
1.15_-_The_Worship_of_the_Oak
1.16_-_Man,_A_Transitional_Being
1.16_-_The_Season_of_Truth
1.16_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.17_-_M._AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.17_-_The_Transformation
1.18_-_Further_rules_for_the_Tragic_Poet.
1.18_-_The_Perils_of_the_Soul
1.19_-_Tabooed_Acts
1.19_-_Thought,_or_the_Intellectual_element,_and_Diction_in_Tragedy.
1.201_-_Socrates
12.01_-_The_Return_to_Earth
12.01_-_This_Great_Earth_Our_Mother
1.20_-_RULES_FOR_HOUSEHOLDERS_AND_MONKS
1.20_-_Tabooed_Persons
1.20_-_TANTUM_RELIGIO_POTUIT_SUADERE_MALORUM
1.21_-_ON_FREE_DEATH
1.21_-_Tabooed_Things
1.21_-_The_Fifth_Bolgia__Peculators._The_Elder_of_Santa_Zita._Malacoda_and_other_Devils.
1.22_-_ADVICE_TO_AN_ACTOR
1.22_-_Ciampolo,_Friar_Gomita,_and_Michael_Zanche._The_Malabranche_quarrel.
1.22_-_THE_END_OF_THE_SPECIES
1.23_-_Escape_from_the_Malabranche._The_Sixth_Bolgia__Hypocrites._Catalano_and_Loderingo._Caiaphas.
1.23_-_FESTIVAL_AT_SURENDRAS_HOUSE
1.240_-_1.300_Talks
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.24_-_Matter
1.24_-_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.24_-_The_Killing_of_the_Divine_King
1.25_-_ADVICE_TO_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.25_-_On_the_destroyer_of_the_passions,_most_sublime_humility,_which_is_rooted_in_spiritual_feeling.
1.25_-_Temporary_Kings
1.26_-_FESTIVAL_AT_ADHARS_HOUSE
1.27_-_CONTEMPLATION,_ACTION_AND_SOCIAL_UTILITY
1.27_-_Succession_to_the_Soul
1.28_-_The_Killing_of_the_Tree-Spirit
1.2_-_Katha_Upanishads
1.300_-_1.400_Talks
13.06_-_The_Passing_of_Satyavan
13.08_-_The_Return
1.31_-_Is_Thelema_a_New_Religion?
1.33_-_Count_Ugolino_and_the_Archbishop_Ruggieri._The_Death_of_Count_Ugolino's_Sons.
1.33_-_The_Gardens_of_Adonis
1.35_-_The_Tao_2
1.36_-_Human_Representatives_of_Attis
1.39_-_The_Ritual_of_Osiris
1.40_-_The_Nature_of_Osiris
1.439
1.45_-_The_Corn-Mother_and_the_Corn-Maiden_in_Northern_Europe
1.47_-_Lityerses
1.49_-_Ancient_Deities_of_Vegetation_as_Animals
1.49_-_Thelemic_Morality
15.05_-_Twin_Prayers
15.06_-_Words,_Words,_Words...
1.50_-_Eating_the_God
1.51_-_How_to_Recognise_Masters,_Angels,_etc.,_and_how_they_Work
1.52_-_Killing_the_Divine_Animal
1.53_-_Mother-Love
1.54_-_On_Meanness
1.550_-_1.600_Talks
1.55_-_The_Transference_of_Evil
1.56_-_The_Public_Expulsion_of_Evils
1.57_-_Public_Scapegoats
1.58_-_Human_Scapegoats_in_Classical_Antiquity
1.60_-_Between_Heaven_and_Earth
1.62_-_The_Fire-Festivals_of_Europe
1.63_-_The_Interpretation_of_the_Fire-Festivals
1.64_-_The_Burning_of_Human_Beings_in_the_Fires
1.65_-_Balder_and_the_Mistletoe
1.65_-_Man
1.66_-_The_External_Soul_in_Folk-Tales
1.67_-_The_External_Soul_in_Folk-Custom
1.68_-_The_Golden_Bough
17.11_-_A_Prayer
1.71_-_Morality_2
1.72_-_Education
1.74_-_Obstacles_on_the_Path
18.04_-_Modern_Poems
1.83_-_Epistola_Ultima
1917_04_07p
1929-06-02_-__Divine_love_and_its_manifestation_-_Part_of_the_vital_being_in_Divine_love
1951-04-12_-_Japan,_its_art,_landscapes,_life,_etc_-_Fairy-lore_of_Japan_-_Culture-_its_spiral_movement_-_Indian_and_European-_the_spiritual_life_-_Art_and_Truth
1953-04-29
1953-05-27
1953-08-19
1955-02-09_-_Desire_is_contagious_-_Primitive_form_of_love_-_the_artists_delight_-_Psychic_need,_mind_as_an_instrument_-_How_the_psychic_being_expresses_itself_-_Distinguishing_the_parts_of_ones_being_-_The_psychic_guides_-_Illness_-_Mothers_vision
1955-05-04_-_Drawing_on_the_universal_vital_forces_-_The_inner_physical_-_Receptivity_to_different_kinds_of_forces_-_Progress_and_receptivity
1955-11-16_-_The_significance_of_numbers_-_Numbers,_astrology,_true_knowledge_-_Divines_Love_flowers_for_Kali_puja_-_Desire,_aspiration_and_progress_-_Determining_ones_approach_to_the_Divine_-_Liberation_is_obtained_through_austerities_-_...
1956-01-11_-_Desire_and_self-deception_-_Giving_all_one_is_and_has_-_Sincerity,_more_powerful_than_will_-_Joy_of_progress_Definition_of_youth
1956-11-14_-_Conquering_the_desire_to_appear_good_-_Self-control_and_control_of_the_life_around_-_Power_of_mastery_-_Be_a_great_yogi_to_be_a_good_teacher_-_Organisation_of_the_Ashram_school_-_Elementary_discipline_of_regularity
1956-11-21_-_Knowings_and_Knowledge_-_Reason,_summit_of_mans_mental_activities_-_Willings_and_the_true_will_-_Personal_effort_-_First_step_to_have_knowledge_-_Relativity_of_medical_knowledge_-_Mental_gymnastics_make_the_mind_supple
1956-12-12_-_paradoxes_-_Nothing_impossible_-_unfolding_universe,_the_Eternal_-_Attention,_concentration,_effort_-_growth_capacity_almost_unlimited_-_Why_things_are_not_the_same_-_will_and_willings_-_Suggestions,_formations_-_vital_world
1957-10-02_-_The_Mind_of_Light_-_Statues_of_the_Buddha_-_Burden_of_the_past
1962_02_03
1.A_-_ANTHROPOLOGY,_THE_SOUL
1.ac_-_The_Garden_of_Janus
1.ad_-_O_Christ,_protect_me!
1.anon_-_If_this_were_a_world
1.anon_-_The_Epic_of_Gilgamesh_Tablet_IV
1.bni_-_Raga_Ramkali
1.dz_-_Viewing_Peach_Blossoms_and_Realizing_the_Way
1f.lovecraft_-_At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
1f.lovecraft_-_Discarded_Draft_of
1f.lovecraft_-_Facts_concerning_the_Late
1f.lovecraft_-_Herbert_West-Reanimator
1f.lovecraft_-_In_the_Walls_of_Eryx
1f.lovecraft_-_Medusas_Coil
1f.lovecraft_-_Out_of_the_Aeons
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Alchemist
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Colour_out_of_Space
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Crawling_Chaos
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Curse_of_Yig
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Diary_of_Alonzo_Typer
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dunwich_Horror
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Green_Meadow
1f.lovecraft_-_The_History_of_the_Necronomicon
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Loved_Dead
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Lurking_Fear
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mound
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Quest_of_Iranon
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_out_of_Time
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Terrible_Old_Man
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Tree
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Tree_on_the_Hill
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Whisperer_in_Darkness
1f.lovecraft_-_Till_A_the_Seas
1f.lovecraft_-_Two_Black_Bottles
1.fs_-_Cassandra
1.fs_-_The_Complaint_Of_Ceres
1.fs_-_The_Knights_Of_St._John
1.fs_-_The_Ring_Of_Polycrates_-_A_Ballad
1.fs_-_The_Walk
1.hcyc_-_25_-_Just_take_hold_of_the_source_(from_The_Shodoka)
1.hcyc_-_8_-_Transience,_emptiness_and_enlightenment_(from_The_Shodoka)
1.he_-_The_monkey_is_reaching
1.hs_-_Meditation
1.hs_-_The_Margin_Of_A_Stream
1.ia_-_With_My_Very_Own_Hands
1.jda_-_My_heart_values_his_vulgar_ways_(from_The_Gitagovinda)
1.jda_-_When_spring_came,_tender-limbed_Radha_wandered_(from_The_Gitagovinda)
1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_I
1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_II
1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_III
1.jk_-_Endymion_-_Book_IV
1.jkhu_-_Gathering_Tea
1.jkhu_-_Living_in_the_Mountains
1.jk_-_Hyperion,_A_Vision_-_Attempted_Reconstruction_Of_The_Poem
1.jk_-_Hyperion._Book_I
1.jk_-_I_Stood_Tip-Toe_Upon_A_Little_Hill
1.jk_-_Lamia._Part_I
1.jk_-_Lamia._Part_II
1.jk_-_Ode_On_A_Grecian_Urn
1.jk_-_Ode_To_Psyche
1.jk_-_Sleep_And_Poetry
1.jk_-_Stanzas._In_A_Drear-Nighted_December
1.jk_-_To_George_Felton_Mathew
1.jlb_-_The_Recoleta
1.jr_-_All_Through_Eternity
1.jr_-_Because_I_Cannot_Sleep
1.kbr_-_Abode_Of_The_Beloved
1.kbr_-_Brother,_I've_Seen_Some
1.lb_-_Ch'ing_P'ing_Tiao
1.lb_-_In_Spring
1.lb_-_Nefarious_War
1.lb_-_On_Kusu_Terrace
1.lb_-_Remembering_the_Springs_at_Chih-chou
1.lb_-_To_His_Two_Children
1.lovecraft_-_Despair
1.lovecraft_-_Fungi_From_Yuggoth
1.lovecraft_-_Nemesis
1.lovecraft_-_Revelation
1.lovecraft_-_The_House
1.mah_-_Seeking_Truth,_I_studied_religion
1.mb_-_you_make_the_fire
1.okym_-_72_-_Alas,_that_Spring_should_vanish_with_the_Rose!
1.pbs_-_A_Dirge
1.pbs_-_Alastor_-_or,_the_Spirit_of_Solitude
1.pbs_-_A_Vision_Of_The_Sea
1.pbs_-_Epipsychidion
1.pbs_-_Hellas_-_A_Lyrical_Drama
1.pbs_-_Hymn_To_Mercury
1.pbs_-_Mont_Blanc_-_Lines_Written_In_The_Vale_of_Chamouni
1.pbs_-_Orpheus
1.pbs_-_Prince_Athanase
1.pbs_-_Prometheus_Unbound
1.pbs_-_Rosalind_and_Helen_-_a_Modern_Eclogue
1.pbs_-_The_Cenci_-_A_Tragedy_In_Five_Acts
1.pbs_-_The_Revolt_Of_Islam_-_Canto_I-XII
1.pbs_-_The_Sensitive_Plant
1.pbs_-_The_Two_Spirits_-_An_Allegory
1.pbs_-_The_Witch_Of_Atlas
1.pbs_-_The_Woodman_And_The_Nightingale
1.poe_-_Eureka_-_A_Prose_Poem
1.poe_-_The_Village_Street
1.rb_-_By_The_Fire-Side
1.rb_-_Caliban_upon_Setebos_or,_Natural_Theology_in_the_Island
1.rb_-_Introduction:_Pippa_Passes
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_II_-_Paracelsus_Attains
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_V_-_Paracelsus_Attains
1.rb_-_Pauline,_A_Fragment_of_a_Question
1.rb_-_Pippa_Passes_-_Part_III_-_Evening
1.rb_-_Pippa_Passes_-_Part_II_-_Noon
1.rb_-_Rhyme_for_a_Child_Viewing_a_Naked_Venus_in_a_Painting_of_'The_Judgement_of_Paris'
1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Fourth
1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Sixth
1.rb_-_Sordello_-_Book_the_Third
1.rb_-_The_Englishman_In_Italy
1.rb_-_The_Flight_Of_The_Duchess
1.rb_-_The_Italian_In_England
1.rb_-_Two_In_The_Campagna
1.rmr_-_Dedication_To_M...
1.rmr_-_Growing_Old
1.rmr_-_The_Apple_Orchard
1.rt_-_Fireflies
1.rt_-_Hard_Times
1.rt_-_Lovers_Gifts_XXII_-_I_Shall_Gladly_Suffer
1.rt_-_Shyama
1.rt_-_The_Banyan_Tree
1.rt_-_The_Champa_Flower
1.rt_-_The_Flower-School
1.rt_-_The_Gardener_LXIV_-_I_Spent_My_Day
1.rt_-_The_Gardener_XIV_-_I_Was_Walking_By_The_Road
1.rt_-_The_Gardener_XL_-_An_Unbelieving_Smile
1.rt_-_The_Rainy_Day
1.rwe_-_In_Memoriam
1.rwe_-_Terminus
1.rwe_-_Woodnotes
1.shvb_-_O_spectabiles_viri_-_Antiphon_for_Patriarchs_and_Prophets
1.srh_-_The_Royal_Song_of_Saraha_(Dohakosa)
1.stl_-_My_Song_for_Today
1.tm_-_The_Sowing_of_Meanings
1.tr_-_At_Master_Do's_Country_House
1.tr_-_First_Days_Of_Spring_-_The_sky
1.wby_-_A_Dramatic_Poem
1.wby_-_Coole_Park_1929
1.wby_-_Coole_Park_And_Ballylee,_1931
1.wby_-_Cuchulains_Fight_With_The_Sea
1.wby_-_Fergus_And_The_Druid
1.wby_-_From_A_Full_Moon_In_March
1.wby_-_Lapis_Lazuli
1.wby_-_Love_Song
1.wby_-_Parnells_Funeral
1.wby_-_The_Dedication_To_A_Book_Of_Stories_Selected_From_The_Irish_Novelists
1.wby_-_The_Shadowy_Waters_-_The_Shadowy_Waters
1.wby_-_The_Two_Trees
1.wby_-_The_Wanderings_Of_Oisin_-_Book_I
1.wby_-_The_Wanderings_Of_Oisin_-_Book_III
1.wby_-_Vacillation
1.whitman_-_A_Leaf_For_Hand_In_Hand
1.whitman_-_American_Feuillage
1.whitman_-_As_I_Sat_Alone_By_Blue_Ontarios_Shores
1.whitman_-_I_Saw_In_Louisiana_A_Live_Oak_Growing
1.whitman_-_I_Will_Take_An_Egg_Out_Of_The_Robins_Nest
1.whitman_-_Song_At_Sunset
1.whitman_-_Song_of_Myself
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_Myself-_XXIII
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_Myself-_XXIV
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_Myself-_XXX
1.whitman_-_Starting_From_Paumanok
1.whitman_-_These,_I,_Singing_In_Spring
1.whitman_-_The_World_Below_The_Brine
1.whitman_-_This_Compost
1.whitman_-_When_Lilacs_Last_in_the_Dooryard_Bloomd
1.ww_-_24_-_Walt_Whitman,_a_cosmos,_of_Manhattan_the_son
1.ww_-_Address_To_A_Child_During_A_Boisterous_Winter_By_My_Sister
1.ww_-_An_Evening_Walk
1.ww_-_A_Whirl-Blast_From_Behind_The_Hill
1.ww_-_Book_Seventh_[Residence_in_London]
1.ww_-_Book_Sixth_[Cambridge_and_the_Alps]
1.ww_-_Book_Tenth_{Residence_in_France_continued]
1.ww_-_From_The_Cuckoo_And_The_Nightingale
1.ww_-_Inscriptions_In_The_Ground_Of_Coleorton,_The_Seat_Of_Sir_George_Beaumont,_Bart.,_Leicestershire
1.ww_-_Inside_of_King's_College_Chapel,_Cambridge
1.ww_-_Nutting
1.ww_-_Song_at_the_Feast_of_Brougham_Castle
1.ww_-_Stanzas_Written_In_My_Pocket_Copy_Of_Thomsons_Castle_Of_Indolence
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_IV-_Book_Third-_Despondency
1.ww_-_The_Excursion-_V-_Book_Fouth-_Despondency_Corrected
1.ww_-_The_Force_Of_Prayer,_Or,_The_Founding_Of_Bolton,_A_Tradition
1.ww_-_The_Oak_And_The_Broom
1.ww_-_The_Oak_Of_Guernica_Supposed_Address_To_The_Same
1.ww_-_The_Redbreast_Chasing_The_Butterfly
1.ww_-_The_Thorn
1.ww_-_To_M.H.
1.yni_-_The_Celestial_Fire
20.01_-_Charyapada_-_Old_Bengali_Mystic_Poems
20.04_-_Act_II:_The_Play_on_Earth
20.05_-_Act_III:_The_Return
2.01_-_AT_THE_STAR_THEATRE
2.01_-_Mandala_One
2.01_-_On_Books
2.01_-_THE_ADVENT_OF_LIFE
2.01_-_The_Sefirot
2.01_-_The_Tavern
2.02_-_Evolutionary_Creation_and_the_Expectation_of_a_Revelation
2.02_-_Meeting_With_the_Goddess
2.02_-_THE_EXPANSION_OF_LIFE
2.03_-_Atomic_Forms_And_Their_Combinations
2.03_-_DEMETER
2.03_-_Karmayogin__A_Commentary_on_the_Isha_Upanishad
2.03_-_THE_ENIGMA_OF_BOLOGNA
2.04_-_The_Divine_and_the_Undivine
2.07_-_BANKIM_CHANDRA
2.07_-_Ten_Internal_and_Ten_External_Sefirot
2.08_-_AT_THE_STAR_THEATRE_(II)
2.08_-_God_in_Power_of_Becoming
2.08_-_The_Branches_of_The_Archetypal_Man
2.09_-_THE_MASTERS_BIRTHDAY
2.09_-_The_Pantacle
2.0_-_Reincarnation_and_Karma
2.1.02_-_Love_and_Death
21.03_-_The_Double_Ladder
2.12_-_THE_MASTERS_REMINISCENCES
2.1.4.2_-_Teaching
2.14_-_The_Origin_and_Remedy_of_Falsehood,_Error,_Wrong_and_Evil
2.14_-_The_Unpacking_of_God
2.16_-_VISIT_TO_NANDA_BOSES_HOUSE
2.17_-_December_1938
2.17_-_THE_MASTER_ON_HIMSELF_AND_HIS_EXPERIENCES
2.20_-_THE_MASTERS_TRAINING_OF_HIS_DISCIPLES
2.21_-_IN_THE_COMPANY_OF_DEVOTEES_AT_SYAMPUKUR
2.21_-_The_Order_of_the_Worlds
2.2.1_-_The_Prusna_Upanishads
2.2.3_-_Depression_and_Despondency
2.23_-_THE_MASTER_AND_BUDDHA
2.2.4_-_Taittiriya_Upanishad
2.25_-_The_Higher_and_the_Lower_Knowledge
2.29_-_The_Worlds_of_Creation,_Formation_and_Action
2.32_-_Prophetic_Visions
26.09_-_Le_Periple_d_Or_(Pome_dans_par_Yvonne_Artaud)
27.01_-_The_Golden_Harvest
2_-_Other_Hymns_to_Agni
3.00.2_-_Introduction
30.03_-_Spirituality_in_Art
3.00_-_The_Magical_Theory_of_the_Universe
30.16_-_Tagore_the_Unique
30.18_-_Boris_Pasternak
3.01_-_THE_BIRTH_OF_THOUGHT
3.01_-_The_Principles_of_Ritual
3.02_-_King_and_Queen
3.02_-_Mysticism
3.02_-_THE_DEPLOYMENT_OF_THE_NOOSPHERE
3.02_-_The_Great_Secret
3.03_-_The_Naked_Truth
3.05_-_SAL
3.05_-_The_Formula_of_I.A.O.
3.06_-_Death
31.01_-_The_Heart_of_Bengal
31.03_-_The_Trinity_of_Bengal
3.10_-_ON_THE_THREE_EVILS
3.10_-_The_New_Birth
3.1.1_-_The_Transformation_of_the_Physical
3.12_-_Of_the_Bloody_Sacrifice
3.18_-_Of_Clairvoyance_and_the_Body_of_Light
3.2.02_-_The_Veda_and_the_Upanishads
3.2.03_-_Conservation_and_Progress
32.06_-_The_Novel_Alchemy
3.20_-_Of_the_Eucharist
33.10_-_Pondicherry_I
33.15_-_My_Athletics
33.17_-_Two_Great_Wars
3.4.02_-_The_Inconscient
34.06_-_Hymn_to_Sindhu
34.09_-_Hymn_to_the_Pillar
3-5_Full_Circle
36.07_-_An_Introduction_To_The_Vedas
3.7.1.03_-_Rebirth,_Evolution,_Heredity
38.04_-_Great_Time
3.8.1.06_-_The_Universal_Consciousness
4.01_-_Conclusion_-_My_intellectual_position
4.01_-_THE_COLLECTIVE_ISSUE
4.01_-_The_Presence_of_God_in_the_World
4.02_-_Humanity_in_Progress
4.03_-_The_Meaning_of_Human_Endeavor
4.03_-_The_Special_Phenomenology_of_the_Child_Archetype
4.03_-_THE_ULTIMATE_EARTH
4.11_-_THE_WELCOME
5.01_-_EPILOGUE
5.01_-_The_Dakini,_Salgye_Du_Dalma
5.06_-_Origins_And_Savage_Period_Of_Mankind
5.07_-_Beginnings_Of_Civilization
5.1.01.1_-_The_Book_of_the_Herald
5.1.01.2_-_The_Book_of_the_Statesman
5.1.01.4_-_The_Book_of_Partings
5.1.01.9_-_Book_IX
5.1.02_-_Ahana
5.2.01_-_The_Descent_of_Ahana
5.4.01_-_Notes_on_Root-Sounds
5_-_The_Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit_in_Fairytales
6.02_-_Great_Meteorological_Phenomena,_Etc
6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation
7.02_-_Courage
7.09_-_Right_Judgement
7_-_Yoga_of_Sri_Aurobindo
9.99_-_Glossary
Aeneid
BOOK_II._-_A_review_of_the_calamities_suffered_by_the_Romans_before_the_time_of_Christ,_showing_that_their_gods_had_plunged_them_into_corruption_and_vice
BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.
BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS
BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION
BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_I._--_PART_II._THE_EVOLUTION_OF_SYMBOLISM_IN_ITS_APPROXIMATE_ORDER
Book_of_Exodus
Book_of_Genesis
Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)
BOOK_XI._-_Augustine_passes_to_the_second_part_of_the_work,_in_which_the_origin,_progress,_and_destinies_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_are_discussed.Speculations_regarding_the_creation_of_the_world
BOOK_XVIII._-_A_parallel_history_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_from_the_time_of_Abraham_to_the_end_of_the_world
BOOK_XVI._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_Noah_to_the_time_of_the_kings_of_Israel
BOOK_XV._-_The_progress_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_traced_by_the_sacred_history
BOOK_XXII._-_Of_the_eternal_happiness_of_the_saints,_the_resurrection_of_the_body,_and_the_miracles_of_the_early_Church
BS_1_-_Introduction_to_the_Idea_of_God
CASE_5_-_KYOGENS_MAN_HANGING_IN_THE_TREE
ENNEAD_01.03_-_Of_Dialectic,_or_the_Means_of_Raising_the_Soul_to_the_Intelligible_World.
ENNEAD_03.03_-_Continuation_of_That_on_Providence.
ENNEAD_03.08b_-_Of_Nature,_Contemplation_and_Unity.
ENNEAD_04.04_-_Questions_About_the_Soul.
ENNEAD_05.02_-_Of_Generation,_and_of_the_Order_of_things_that_Rank_Next_After_the_First.
ENNEAD_06.02_-_The_Categories_of_Plotinos.
ENNEAD_06.05_-_The_One_and_Identical_Being_is_Everywhere_Present_In_Its_Entirety.345
ENNEAD_06.07_-_How_Ideas_Multiplied,_and_the_Good.
Epistle_to_the_Romans
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Guru_Granth_Sahib_first_part
Liber_111_-_The_Book_of_Wisdom_-_LIBER_ALEPH_VEL_CXI
Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries
Liber_71_-_The_Voice_of_the_Silence_-_The_Two_Paths_-_The_Seven_Portals
Medea_-_A_Vergillian_Cento
Meno
Prayers_and_Meditations_by_Baha_u_llah_text
r1912_12_06
r1912_12_31
r1914_12_20
Ragnarok
Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text)
Sophist
Symposium_translated_by_B_Jowett
Tablets_of_Baha_u_llah_text
Talks_076-099
Talks_100-125
Talks_600-652
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1
The_Act_of_Creation_text
Theaetetus
The_Anapanasati_Sutta__A_Practical_Guide_to_Mindfullness_of_Breathing_and_Tranquil_Wisdom_Meditation
The_Book_of_Certitude_-_P1
The_Book_of_Job
The_Book_of_the_Prophet_Isaiah
The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers
the_Eternal_Wisdom
The_Five,_Ranks_of_The_Apparent_and_the_Real
The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths_1
The_Gold_Bug
The_Gospel_According_to_John
The_Gospel_According_to_Luke
The_Gospel_According_to_Mark
The_Gospel_According_to_Matthew
The_Lottery_in_Babylon
The_Monadology
The_Poems_of_Cold_Mountain
The_Shadow_Out_Of_Time
The_Waiting
Timaeus
Verses_of_Vemana

PRIMARY CLASS

SIMILAR TITLES
branch
branching
Branching Streams flow in the darkness

DEFINITIONS


TERMS STARTING WITH

branch ::: 1. (mathematics) An edge in a tree.2. (programming) A jump.

branch 1. "mathematics" An {edge} in a {tree}. 2. "programming" A {jump}.

branch coverage testing "programming" A test method which aims to ensure that each possible branch from each decision point (e.g. "if" statement) is executed at least once, thus ensuring that all reachable code is executed. (1996-05-10)

branch coverage testing ::: (programming) A test method which aims to ensure that each possible branch from each decision point (e.g. if statement) is executed at least once, thus ensuring that all reachable code is executed. (1996-05-10)

branch delay slot ::: delayed control-transfer

branch delay slot {delayed control-transfer}

branched ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Branch

brancher ::: n. --> That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.


branchery ::: n. --> A system of branches.

branches ::: pl. --> of Branch

branchiae ::: pl. --> of Branchia

branchial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.

branchia ::: n. --> A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

branchiate ::: a. --> Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.

branchiferous ::: a. --> Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

branchiness ::: n. --> Fullness of branches.

branching factor ::: In computing, tree data structures, and game theory, the number of children at each node, the outdegree. If this value is not uniform, an average branching factor can be calculated.

branching ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Branch ::: a. --> Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. ::: n.

branchiogastropoda ::: n. pl. --> Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

branchiomerism ::: n. --> The state of being made up of branchiate segments.

branchiopoda ::: n. pl. --> An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

branchiopod ::: n. --> One of the Branchiopoda.

branchiostegal ::: a. --> Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. ::: n. --> A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

branchiostege ::: --> The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

branchiostegous ::: a. --> Branchiostegal.

branchiostoma ::: n. --> The lancelet. See Amphioxus.

branchiura ::: n. pl. --> A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

branchless ::: a. --> Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

branchlet ::: n. --> A little branch; a twig.

branch ::: n. --> A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.


branch pilot ::: --> A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.

branch prediction "processor, algorithm" A technique used in some processors with {instruction prefetch} to guess whether a {conditional branch} will be taken or not and prefetch code from the appropriate location. When a branch instruction is executed, its address and that of the next instruction executed (the chosen destination of the branch) are stored in the {Branch Target Buffer}. This information is used to predict which way the instruction will branch the next time it is executed so that instruction prefetch can continue. When the prediction is correct (and it is over 90% of the time), executing a branch does not cause a {pipeline break}. Some later {CPUs} simply prefetch both paths instead of trying to predict which way the branch will go. An extension of the idea of branch prediction is {speculative execution}. (1998-03-14)

branch prediction ::: (processor, algorithm) A technique used in some processors with instruction prefetch to guess whether a conditional branch will be taken or not and prefetch code from the appropriate location.When a branch instruction is executed, its address and that of the next instruction executed (the chosen destination of the branch) are stored in the prefetch can continue. When the prediction is correct (and it is over 90% of the time), executing a branch does not cause a pipeline break.Some later CPUs simply prefetch both paths instead of trying to predict which way the branch will go.An extension of the idea of branch prediction is speculative execution. (1998-03-14)

branch to Fishkill (IBM: from the location of one of the corporation's facilities) Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results. See {jump off into never-never land}, {hyperspace}. [{Jargon File}]

branch to Fishkill ::: (IBM: from the location of one of the corporation's facilities) Any unexpected jump in a program that produces catastrophic or just plain weird results.See jump off into never-never land, hyperspace.[Jargon File]

branchy ::: a. --> Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

Branch accounting - Normally means the accounting for regions separated geographically or sections of enterprises. The accounting system which is adopted depends upon the degree of centralisation of the the branch and how much it is controlled from its central or head office.

Branch and Hang ::: (humour) (BRH) Originally a mythical instruction for the IBM 1130 at Indiana University.Later some real examples were discovered. The Texas Instruments TI-980 allowed all addressing modes with all instructions, including Store Immediate Extended Link Immediate (makes a subroutine call to the same instruction -- Branch and Hang).Compare HCF. (1997-02-12)

Branch and Hang "humour" (BRH) Originally a mythical instruction for the {IBM 1130} at {Indiana University}. Later some real examples were discovered. The {Texas Instruments} {TI-980} allowed all {addressing modes} with all instructions, including Store Immediate Extended (stores the value into the extension word of the instruction) and Branch and Link Immediate (makes a subroutine call to the same instruction -- Branch and Hang). Compare {HCF}. (1997-02-12)

Branch on Chip Box Full ::: (humour) (BCBF) A mythical IBM 1130 instruction whose action depended on the contents of the chip box. This was one of a long list of fake assembly language instructions that went around Indiana University in the 1970s. (1997-02-12)

Branch on Chip Box Full "humour" (BCBF) A mythical {IBM 1130} instruction whose action depended on the contents of the {chip box}. This was one of a long list of fake {assembly language} instructions that went around {Indiana University} in the 1970s. (1997-02-12)

BRANCH-RACE See RACES

Branch Target Buffer "processor" (BTB) A {register} used to store the predicted destination of a branch in a processor using {branch prediction}? [Is this correct? Examples?] (1995-05-05)

Branch Target Buffer ::: (processor) (BTB) A register used to store the predicted destination of a branch in a processor using branch prediction?[Is this correct? Examples?] (1995-05-05)


TERMS ANYWHERE

abattis ::: n. --> A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

abranchial ::: a. --> Abranchiate.

abranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A group of annelids, so called because the species composing it have no special organs of respiration.

abranchiate ::: a. --> Without gills.

aborted ::: a. --> Brought forth prematurely.
Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches.


abroad ::: adv. --> At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one&


acetabulifera ::: n. pl. --> The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

advancer ::: n. --> One who advances; a promoter.
A second branch of a buck&


adventist ::: n. --> One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists.

alewife ::: n. --> A woman who keeps an alehouse.
A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.


algebra ::: n. --> That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.
A treatise on this science.


algebra ::: the branch of mathematics that deals with general statements of relations, utilizing letters and other symbols to represent specific sets of numbers, values, vectors, etc., in the description of such relations. 2. Any special system of notation adapted to the study of a special system of relationship.

amphirhina ::: n. pl. --> A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

amputate ::: v. t. --> To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.
To cut off (a limb or projecting part of the body)


anadromous ::: a. --> Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem.


anthobranchia ::: n. pl. --> A division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

anthropography ::: n. --> That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations.

antler ::: n. --> The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

a person who is practised in or who studies geometry, the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space from their defining conditions by means of certain assumed properties of space. World-Geometer"s.

aplysia ::: n. --> A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

apologetics ::: n. --> That branch of theology which defends the Holy Scriptures, and sets forth the evidence of their divine authority.

aramaic ::: a. --> Pertaining to Aram, or to the territory, inhabitants, language, or literature of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramaean; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. ::: n. --> The Aramaic language.

arborescent ::: a. --> Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.

arbor ::: n. --> A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.
A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.
An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.
A mandrel in lathe turning.


arcuation ::: n. --> The act of bending or curving; incurvation; the state of being bent; crookedness.
A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering.


argulus ::: n. --> A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

armless ::: a. --> Without any arm or branch.
Destitute of arms or weapons.


arm ::: n. --> The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.
Anything resembling an arm
The fore limb of an animal, as of a bear.
A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
A branch of a tree.
A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a


armory ::: n. --> A place where arms and instruments of war are deposited for safe keeping.
Armor; defensive and offensive arms.
A manufactory of arms, as rifles, muskets, pistols, bayonets, swords.
Ensigns armorial; armorial bearings.
That branch of heraldry which treats of coat armor.


arthropomata ::: n. pl. --> One of the orders of Branchiopoda. See Branchiopoda.

artillery ::: n. --> Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.
Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.
The science of artillery or gunnery.


asparagus ::: n. --> A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.
The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.


aspidobranchia ::: n. pl. --> A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

assemblyman ::: n. --> A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.

asterophyllite ::: n. --> A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

astrophyton ::: n. --> A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.

atmology ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor.

atrypa ::: n. --> A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

axil ::: n. --> The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

bachelor ::: n. --> A man of any age who has not been married.
An unmarried woman.
A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet


banyan ::: n. --> A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

bard ::: n. --> A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
Alt. of Barde
The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
Specifically, Peruvian bark.


basi- ::: --> A combining form, especially in anatomical and botanical words, to indicate the base or position at or near a base; forming a base; as, basibranchials, the most ventral of the cartilages or bones of the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.

basidium ::: n. --> A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

branched ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Branch

brancher ::: n. --> That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.


branchery ::: n. --> A system of branches.

branches ::: pl. --> of Branch

branchiae ::: pl. --> of Branchia

branchial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to branchiae or gills.

branchia ::: n. --> A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained in water, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.

branchiate ::: a. --> Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments.

branchiferous ::: a. --> Having gills; branchiate; as, branchiferous gastropods.

branchiness ::: n. --> Fullness of branches.

branching ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Branch ::: a. --> Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. ::: n.

branchiogastropoda ::: n. pl. --> Those Gastropoda that breathe by branchiae, including the Prosobranchiata and Opisthobranchiata.

branchiomerism ::: n. --> The state of being made up of branchiate segments.

branchiopoda ::: n. pl. --> An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.

branchiopod ::: n. --> One of the Branchiopoda.

branchiostegal ::: a. --> Pertaining to the membrane covering the gills of fishes. ::: n. --> A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

branchiostege ::: --> The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

branchiostegous ::: a. --> Branchiostegal.

branchiostoma ::: n. --> The lancelet. See Amphioxus.

branchiura ::: n. pl. --> A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).

branchless ::: a. --> Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

branchlet ::: n. --> A little branch; a twig.

branch ::: n. --> A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.


branch pilot ::: --> A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation.

branchy ::: a. --> Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

bez-antler ::: n. --> The second branch of a stag&

bicameral ::: a. --> Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.

bifarious ::: a. --> Twofold; arranged in two rows.
Pointing two ways, as leaves that grow only on opposite sides of a branch; in two vertical rows.


bifurcate ::: a. --> Alt. of Bifurcated ::: v. i. --> To divide into two branches.

bifurcation ::: n. --> A forking, or division into two branches.

bi- ::: --> In most branches of science bi- in composition denotes two, twice, or doubly; as, bidentate, two-toothed; biternate, doubly ternate, etc.
In the composition of chemical names bi- denotes two atoms, parts, or equivalents of that constituent to the name of which it is prefixed, to one of the other component, or that such constituent is present in double the ordinary proportion; as, bichromate, bisulphide. Be- and di- are often used interchangeably.


biology ::: n. --> The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

bipalmate ::: a. --> Palmately branched, with the branches again palmated.

biramous ::: a. --> Having, or consisting of, two branches.

bolling ::: v. t. --> A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

bosquet ::: n. --> A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.
See Bosket.


bough ::: a main branch on a tree. boughs.

bough ::: n. --> An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.
A gallows.


bounty ::: n. --> Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
That which is given generously or liberally.
A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.


bourgeon ::: v. i. --> To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch.

brachiate ::: a. --> Having branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the maple and lilac.

brake ::: --> imp. of Break.
of Break ::: n. --> A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern.


bronchia ::: n. pl. --> The bronchial tubes which arise from the branching of the trachea, esp. the subdivision of the bronchi.

broom corn ::: --> A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

broom ::: n. --> A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.


browse ::: n. --> The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.
To eat or nibble off, as the tender branches of trees, shrubs, etc.; -- said of cattle, sheep, deer, and some other animals.
To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze. ::: v. i.


brush ::: n. --> An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.
The bushy tail of a fox.
A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood.


brushwood ::: n. --> Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
Small branches of trees cut off.


bubble shell ::: --> A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.

buccinoid ::: a. --> Resembling the genus Buccinum, or pertaining to the Buccinidae, a family of marine univalve shells. See Whelk, and Prosobranchiata.

buckthorn ::: n. --> A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.

bud ::: n. --> A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.
A small protuberance on certain low forms of animals and vegetables which develops into a new organism, either free or attached. See Hydra. ::: v. i.


bush ::: n. --> A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.
A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.
A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree; as, bushes to support pea vines.
A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners&


cactus ::: n. --> Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.

caducibranchiate ::: a. --> With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

calculus ::: n. --> Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.


calmucks ::: n. pl. --> A branch of the Mongolian race inhabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks.

candelabrum ::: n. --> A lamp stand of any sort.
A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.
A large candlestick, having several branches.


capitibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or near the head. See Tubicola.

caprification ::: n. --> The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

capuchin ::: n. --> A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.
A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk&


carolitic ::: a. --> Adorned with sculptured leaves and branches.

carpology ::: n. --> That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.

carrigeen ::: n. --> A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.

casuarina ::: n. --> A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.

catadromous ::: a. --> Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous.
Living in fresh water, and going to the sea to spawn; -- opposed to anadromous, and said of the eel.


catallacta ::: n. pl. --> A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphaera is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

catallactics ::: n. --> The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.

cataphonics ::: n. --> That branch of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds; catacoustics.

caudex ::: n. --> The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

celestinian ::: n. --> A monk of the austere branch of the Franciscan Order founded by Celestine V. in the 13th centry.

cellepore ::: n. --> A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

ceratobranchial ::: a. --> Pertaining to the bone, or cartilage, below the epibranchial in a branchial arch. ::: n. --> A ceratobranchial bone, or cartilage.

ceratobranchia ::: n. pl. --> A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

ceraunics ::: n. --> That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity.

chandelier ::: n. --> A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.
A movable parapet, serving to support fascines to cover pioneers.


chappion ::: n. --> One who engages in any contest; esp. one who in ancient times contended in single combat in behalf of another&

chara ::: n. --> A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.

checkrein ::: n. --> A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.
A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.


cheek ::: n. --> The side of the face below the eye.
The cheek bone.
Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
The branches of a bridle bit.
A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the


chemistry ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterations in the constitution of the molecules, which depend upon variations of the number, kind, or mode of arrangement, of the constituent atoms. These atoms are not assumed to be indivisible, but merely the finest grade of subdivision hitherto attained. Chemistry deals with the changes in the composition and constitution of molecules. See Atom, Molecule.

chicory ::: n. --> A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated for its roots and as a salad plant; succory; wild endive. See Endive.
The root, which is roasted for mixing with coffee.


chin ::: n. --> The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.
The exterior or under surface embraced between the branches of the lower jaw bone, in birds.


chinquapin ::: n. --> A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat.

chrematistics ::: n. --> The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

chrysology ::: n. --> That branch of political economy which relates to the production of wealth.

cirrobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

cistercian ::: n. --> A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor. ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.

cladophyll ::: n. --> A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

clasper ::: n. --> One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimaera.


cluniac ::: n. --> A monk of the reformed branch of the Benedictine Order, founded in 912 at Cluny (or Clugny) in France. -- Also used as a.

cocoa palm ::: --> A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

college ::: n. --> A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.


coma ::: n. --> A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet.
A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of bracts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds.


compasses ::: n. --> An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.

CONCENTRATION ::: Fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition.

A gathering together of the consciousness and either centralising at one point or turning on a single object, e.g. the Divine; there can also be a gathered condition throughout the whole being, not at a point.

Concentration is necessary, first to turn the whole will and mind from the discursive divagation natural to them, following a dispersed movement of the thoughts, running after many-branching desires, led away in the track of the senses and the outward mental response to phenomena; we have to fix the will and the thought on the eternal and real behind all, and this demands an immense effort, a one-pointed concentration. Secondly, it is necessary in order to break down the veil which is erected by our ordinary mentality between ourselves and the truth; for outer knowledge can be picked up by the way, by ordinary attention and reception, but the inner, hidden and higher truth can only be seized by an absolute concentration of the mind on its object, an absolute concentration of the will to attain it and, once attained, to hold it habitually and securely unite oneself with it.

Centre of Concentration: The two main places where one can centre the consciousness for yoga are in the head and in the heart - the mind-centre and the soul-centre.

Brain concentration is always a tapasyā and necessarily brings a strain. It is only if one is lifted out of the brain mind altogether that the strain of mental concentration disappears.

At the top of the head or above it is the right place for yogic concentration in reading or thinking.

In whatever centre the concentration takes place, the yoga force generated extends to the others and produces concentration or workings there.

Modes of Concentration: There is no harm in concentrating sometimes in the heart and sometimes above the head. But concentration in either place does not mean keeping the attention fixed on a particular spot; you have to take your station of consciousness in either place and concentrate there not on the place, but on the Divine. This can be done with eyes shut or with eyes open, according as it best suits.

If one concentrates on a thought or a word, one has to dwell on the essential idea contained in the word with the aspiration to feel the thing which it expresses.

There is no method in this yoga except to concentrate, preferably in the heart, and call the presence and power of the Mother to take up the being and by the workings of her force to transform the consciousness; one can concentrate also in the head or between the eye-brows, but for many this is a too difficult opening. When the mind falls quiet and the concentration becomes strong and the aspiration intense, then there is a beginning of experience. The more the faith, the more rapid the result is likely to be.

Powers (three) of Concentration ::: By concentration on anything whatsoever we are able to know that thing, to make it deliver up its concealed secrets; we must use this power to know not things, but the one Thing-in-itself. By concentration again the whole will can be gathered up for the acquisition of that which is still ungrasped, still beyond us; this power, if it is sufficiently trained, sufficiently single-minded, sufficiently sincere, sure of itself, faithful to itself alone, absolute in faith, we can use for the acquisition of any object whatsoever; but we ought to use it not for the acquisition of the many objects which the world offers to us, but to grasp spiritually that one object worthy of pursuit which is also the one subject worthy of knowledge. By concentration of our whole being on one status of itself we can become whatever we choose ; we can become, for instance, even if we were before a mass of weaknesses and fears, a mass instead of strength and courage, or we can become all a great purity, holiness and peace or a single universal soul of Love ; but we ought, it is said, to use this power to become not even these things, high as they may be in comparison with what we now are, but rather to become that which is above all things and free from all action and attributes, the pure and absolute Being. All else, all other concentration can only be valuable for preparation, for previous steps, for a gradual training of the dissolute and self-dissipating thought, will and being towards their grand and unique object.

Stages in Concentration (Rajayogic) ::: that in which the object is seized, that in which it is held, that in which the mind is lost in the status which the object represents or to which the concentration leads.

Concentration and Meditation ::: Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or one object and in a single condition Meditation can be diffusive,e.g. thinking about the Divine, receiving impressions and discriminating, watching what goes on in the nature and acting upon it etc. Meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge.

vide Dhyāna.


conchifera ::: n. pl. --> That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.

conference ::: n. --> The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.
A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.


conferva ::: n. --> Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

conics ::: n. --> That branch of geometry which treats of the cone and the curves which arise from its sections.
Conic sections.


conodont ::: n. --> A peculiar toothlike fossil of many forms, found especially in carboniferous rocks. Such fossils are supposed by some to be the teeth of marsipobranch fishes, but they are probably the jaws of annelids.

conservatoire ::: n. --> A public place of instruction in any special branch, esp. music and the arts. [See Conservatory, 3].

coralline ::: a. --> Composed of corallines; as, coralline limestone. ::: n. --> A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.
Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.


coralloid ::: a. --> Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

crotch ::: n. --> The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.
A stanchion or post of wood or iron, with two arms for supporting a boom, spare yards, etc.; -- called also crane and crutch.


crown office ::: --> The criminal branch of the Court of King&

crunode ::: n. --> A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

crustaceology ::: n. --> That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

cryptobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata.
A group of nudibranch mollusks.


cryptobranchiate ::: a. --> Having concealed or rudimentary gills.

dactyliology ::: n. --> That branch of archaeology which has to do with gem engraving.
That branch of archaeology which has to do with finger rings.


dag ::: n. --> A dagger; a poniard.
A large pistol formerly used.
The unbranched antler of a young deer.
A misty shower; dew.
A loose end; a dangling shred. ::: v. t.


deadwood ::: n. --> A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.
Dead trees or branches; useless material.


decacerata ::: n. pl. --> The division of Cephalopoda which includes the squids, cuttlefishes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

decapoda ::: n. pl. --> The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.
A division of the dibranchiate cephalopods including the cuttlefishes and squids. See Decacera.


decussated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Decussate ::: a. --> Crossed; intersected.
Growing in pairs, each of which is at right angles to the next pair above or below; as, decussated leaves or branches.
Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses,


deer ::: n. sing. & pl. --> Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.


defoliation ::: n. --> The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

deliquescent ::: a. --> Dissolving; liquefying by contact with the air; capable of attracting moisture from the atmosphere and becoming liquid; as, deliquescent salts.
Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.


dendrite ::: n. --> A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

dermobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A group of nudibranch mollusks without special gills.

dermobranchiate ::: a. --> Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.

dermopterygii ::: n. pl. --> A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.

derotremata ::: n. pl. --> The tribe of aquatic Amphibia which includes Amphiuma, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata.

diacoustics ::: n. --> That branch of natural philosophy which treats of the properties of sound as affected by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.

dialectics ::: n. --> That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

dialectology ::: n. --> That branch of philology which is devoted to the consideration of dialects.

dibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.

dibranchiate ::: a. --> Having two gills. ::: n. --> One of the Dibranchiata.

dichotomize ::: v. t. --> To cut into two parts; to part into two divisions; to divide into pairs; to bisect.
To exhibit as a half disk. See Dichotomy, 3. ::: v. i. --> To separate into two parts; to branch dichotomously; to become dichotomous.


differentiation ::: n. --> The act of differentiating.
The act of distinguishing or describing a thing, by giving its different, or specific difference; exact definition or determination.
The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root and the stem, the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds; or in animal life, when the germ evolves the


dilettante ::: v. t. --> An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only.

dimyaria ::: n. pl. --> An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

disbranch ::: v. --> To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off.

discina ::: n. --> A genus of Branchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

disciplines ::: branches of knowledge as well as training for the improvement of physical powers, self-control, etc.

divaricate ::: v. i. --> To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.
To diverge; to be divaricate. ::: v. t. --> To divide into two branches; to cause to branch apart.


divarication ::: n. --> A separation into two parts or branches; a forking; a divergence.
An ambiguity of meaning; a disagreement of difference in opinion.
A divergence of lines of color sculpture, or of fibers at different angles.


diverticulum ::: n. --> A blind tube branching out of a longer one.

doctor ::: n. --> A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.


doctrine ::: n. --> Teaching; instruction.
That which is taught; what is held, put forth as true, and supported by a teacher, a school, or a sect; a principle or position, or the body of principles, in any branch of knowledge; any tenet or dogma; a principle of faith; as, the doctrine of atoms; the doctrine of chances.


doris ::: n. --> A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks having a wreath of branchiae on the back.

dorsibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.]

dorsibranchiate ::: a. --> Having branchiae along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. ::: n. --> One of the Dorsibranchiata.

drill ::: v. t. --> To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
To train in the military art; to exercise diligently, as soldiers, in military evolutions and exercises; hence, to instruct thoroughly in the rudiments of any art or branch of knowledge; to discipline.
To cause to flow in drills or rills or by trickling; to drain by trickling; as, waters drilled through a sandy stratum.


dropper ::: n. --> One who, or that which, drops. Specif.: (Fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
A dropping tube.
A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the setter.


druid ::: n. --> One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.
A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries.


dynamics ::: n. --> That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.
The moving moral, as well as physical, forces of any kind, or the laws which relate to them.
That department of musical science which relates to, or treats of, the power of tones.


dysteleology ::: n. --> The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.

ectobronchium ::: n. --> One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.

elasmobranch ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii. ::: n. --> One of the Elasmobranchii.

elasmobranchiate ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii. ::: n. --> One of the Elasmobranchii.

elasmobranchii ::: n. pl. --> A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimaera. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.

electro-biology ::: n. --> That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.
That phase of mesmerism or animal magnetism, the phenomena of which are supposed to be produced by a form of electricity.


electro-chemistry ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.

electro-dynamics ::: n. --> The phenomena of electricity in motion.
The branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical electricity.


electro-kinetics ::: n. --> That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.

electrolier ::: n. --> A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.

electrology ::: n. --> That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.

electro-physiology ::: n. --> That branch of physiology which treats of electric phenomena produced through physiological agencies.

electrostatics ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.

electro-therapeutics ::: n. --> The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.

electro-thermancy ::: n. --> That branch of electrical science which treats of the effect of an electric current upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.

embranchment ::: n. --> The branching forth, as of trees.

encyclopaedia ::: a book or set of books containing articles on various topics, usually in alphabetical arrangement, covering all branches of knowledge or, less commonly, all aspects of one subject.

encyclopaedia ::: n. --> The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.

endognath ::: n. --> The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

endopodite ::: n. --> The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

energetics ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of the laws governing the physical or mechanical, in distinction from the vital, forces, and which comprehends the consideration and general investigation of the whole range of the forces concerned in physical phenomena.

engineer ::: n. --> A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering. See under Engineering, n.
One who manages as engine, particularly a steam engine; an engine driver.
One who carries through an enterprise by skillful or artful contrivance; an efficient manager. ::: v. t.


enteropneusta ::: n. pl. --> A group of wormlike invertebrates having, along the sides of the body, branchial openings for the branchial sacs, which are formed by diverticula of the alimentary canal. Balanoglossus is the only known genus. See Illustration in Appendix.

eolis ::: n. --> A genus of nudibranch mollusks having clusters of branchial papillae along the back. See Ceratobranchia.

eparterial ::: a. --> Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

epibranchial ::: a. --> Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. ::: n. --> An epibranchial cartilage or bone.

epidemiology ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of epidemics.

epipharyngeal ::: a. --> Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes. ::: n. --> An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

epipodite ::: n. --> The outer branch of the legs in certain Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

eschara ::: n. --> A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.

ethics ::: 1. A system of moral principles. 2. The branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions. **ethics".

ethnography ::: n. --> That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.

etymology ::: n. --> That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.


euryale ::: n. --> A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food.
A genus of ophiurans with much-branched arms.


euryalida ::: n. pl. --> A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.

euthyneura ::: n. pl. --> A large division of gastropod molluske, including the Pulmonifera and Opisthobranchiata.

evectics ::: n. --> The branch of medical science which teaches the method of acquiring a good habit of body.

evergreen ::: a. --> Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like. ::: n. --> An evergreen plant.
Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for


exopodite ::: n. --> The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.

extrabranchial ::: a. --> Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.

fagot ::: n. --> A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.
A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.
A bassoon. See Fagotto.
A person hired to take the place of another at the muster of a company.


fastigiated ::: a. --> Narrowing towards the top.
Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.


feuillants ::: n. pl. --> A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.

fibril ::: n. --> A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla.

finns ::: n. pl. --> Natives of Finland; Finlanders.
A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.


flagellum ::: v. t. --> A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
A long, whiplike cilium. See Flagellata.
An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
A lashlike appendage of a crustacean, esp. the terminal ortion of the antennae and the epipodite of the maxilipeds. See Maxilliped.


flower-fence ::: n. --> A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, / Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; -- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies.

foliage ::: n. --> Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
A cluster of leaves, flowers, and branches; especially, the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, in architecture, intended to ornament and enrich capitals, friezes, pediments, etc. ::: v. t.


folium ::: n. --> A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.


forcipal ::: a. --> Forked or branched like a pair of forceps; constructed so as to open and shut like a pair of forceps.

forked ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Fork ::: a. --> Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.
Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.


fork ::: n. --> An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an


fourche ::: a. --> Having the ends forked or branched, and the ends of the branches terminating abruptly as if cut off; -- said of an ordinary, especially of a cross.

frog ::: n. --> An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utter loud notes in the springtime.
The triangular prominence of the hoof, in the middle of the sole of the foot of the horse, and other animals; the fourchette.
A supporting plate having raised ribs that form continuations of the rails, to guide the wheels where one track branches from another or crosses it.


frondation ::: n. --> The act of stripping, as trees, of leaves or branches; a kind of pruning.

fruit ::: v. t. --> Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural.
The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3.
The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents and whatever parts are consolidated with it.


fruticose ::: a. --> Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.

furcated ::: a. --> Forked; branching like a fork; as, furcate twigs.

furcation ::: n. --> A branching like a. fork.

gaelic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language. ::: n. --> The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.

galei ::: n. pl. --> That division of elasmobranch fishes which includes the sharks.

galvanism ::: n. --> Electricity excited by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; dynamical electricity.
The branch of physical science which treats of dynamical elecricity, or the properties and effects of electrical currents.


garland ::: n. --> The crown of a king.
A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
The top; the thing most prized.
A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.
A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience


geodesy ::: n. --> That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portions of the earth&

geogony ::: n. --> The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.

geometry ::: n. --> That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.
A treatise on this science.


gill ::: n. --> An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
The flesh under or about the chin.
One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.


girandole ::: n. --> An ornamental branched candlestick.
A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form.
A kind of revolving firework.
A series of chambers in defensive mines.


girdler ::: n. --> One who girdles.
A maker of girdles.
An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae.


glaucus ::: n. --> A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.

glomuliferous ::: a. --> Having small clusters of minutely branched coral-like excrescences.

gnathostoma ::: n. pl. --> A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them.

gorgoniacea ::: n. pl. --> One of the principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or c/nenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated.

gorgonia ::: n. --> A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.
Any slender branched gorgonian.


graft ::: n. --> A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.


gunnery ::: n. --> That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.

gymnasium ::: n. --> A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.
A school for the higher branches of literature and science; a preparatory school for the university; -- used esp. of German schools of this kind.


gynophore ::: n. --> The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora. html{color:


hag ::: n. --> A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; also, a wizard.
An ugly old woman.
A fury; a she-monster.
An eel-like marine marsipobranch (Myxine glutinosa), allied to the lamprey. It has a suctorial mouth, with labial appendages, and a single pair of gill openings. It is the type of the order Hyperotpeta. Called also hagfish, borer, slime eel, sucker, and sleepmarken.
The hagdon or shearwater.


hair grass ::: --> A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira or Deschampsia.

halacha ::: n. --> The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

harebell ::: n. --> A small, slender, branching plant (Campanula rotundifolia), having blue bell-shaped flowers; also, Scilla nutans, which has similar flowers; -- called also bluebell.

helminthes ::: n. pl. --> One of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha.

hemibranchi ::: n. pl. --> An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

hermeneutics ::: n. --> The science of interpretation and explanation; exegesis; esp., that branch of theology which defines the laws whereby the meaning of the Scriptures is to be ascertained.

herpetology ::: n. --> The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.

heteropelmous ::: a. --> Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.

hiberno-celtic ::: n. --> The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.

hippocampus ::: n. --> A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune.
A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse.
A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter


histology ::: n. --> That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology.

hobblebush ::: n. --> A low bush (Viburnum lantanoides) having long, straggling branches and handsome flowers. It is found in the Northern United States. Called also shinhopple.

holdfast ::: n. --> Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.
A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.


holethnos ::: n. --> A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.

holocephali ::: n. pl. --> An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimaera; also Illustration in Appendix.

homiletics ::: n. --> The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.

homodromous ::: a. --> Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
Moving in the same direction; -- said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis.


hornbook ::: n. --> The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord&

husbandry ::: n. --> Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift.
The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming.


hydraulics ::: n. --> That branch of science, or of engineering, which treats of fluids in motion, especially of water, its action in rivers and canals, the works and machinery for conducting or raising it, its use as a prime mover, and the like.

hydrobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> An extensive artificial division of gastropod mollusks, including those that breathe by gills, as contrasted with the Pulmonifera.

hydrocaulus ::: n. --> The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea.

hydrodynamics ::: n. --> That branch of the science of mechanics which relates to fluids, or, as usually limited, which treats of the laws of motion and action of nonelastic fluids, whether as investigated mathematically, or by observation and experiment; the principles of dynamics, as applied to water and other fluids.

hydrography ::: n. --> The art of measuring and describing the sea, lakes, rivers, and other waters, with their phenomena.
That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.


hydromechanics ::: n. --> That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.

hydrometeorology ::: n. --> That branch of meteorology which relates to, or treats of, water in the atmosphere, or its phenomena, as rain, clouds, snow, hail, storms, etc.

hydrophytology ::: n. --> The branch of botany which treats of water plants.

hydrostatics ::: n. --> The branch of science which relates to the pressure and equilibrium of nonelastic fluids, as water, mercury, etc.; the principles of statics applied to water and other liquids.

hyetography ::: n. --> The branch of physical science which treats of the geographical distribution of rain.

hygrometry ::: n. --> That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.

hyparterial ::: a. --> Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus.

hyperbola ::: n. --> A curve formed by a section of a cone, when the cutting plane makes a greater angle with the base than the side of the cone makes. It is a plane curve such that the difference of the distances from any point of it to two fixed points, called foci, is equal to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.

hyperoartia ::: n. pl. --> An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. The suckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in the middle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey.

hyperotreta ::: n. pl. --> An order of marsipobranchs, including the Myxine or hagfish and the genus Bdellostoma. They have barbels around the mouth, one tooth on the plate, and a communication between the nasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish.

hyphae ::: n. pl. --> The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.

hypobranchial ::: a. --> Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch. ::: n. --> A hypobranchial bone or cartilage.

hypsometry ::: n. --> That branch of the science of geodesy which has to do with the measurement of heights, either absolutely with reference to the sea level, or relatively.

iamatology ::: n. --> Materia Medica; that branch of therapeutics which treats of remedies.

ichnology ::: n. --> The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.

ichthyology ::: n. --> The natural history of fishes; that branch of zoology which relates to fishes, including their structure, classification, and habits.

incurrent ::: a. --> Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.

incurved ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Incurve ::: a. --> Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals.

indoctrinate ::: v. t. --> To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed by in.

industry ::: n. --> Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; -- opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.


inequilateral ::: a. --> Having unequal sides; unsymmetrical; unequal-sided.
Having the two ends unequal, as in the clam, quahaug, and most lamellibranch shells.


inferobranchian ::: n. --> One of the Inferobranchiata.

inferobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A suborder of marine gastropod mollusks, in which the gills are between the foot and the mantle.

inferobranchiate ::: a. --> Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

infrabranchial ::: a. --> Below the gills; -- applied to the ventral portion of the pallial chamber in the lamellibranchs.

infurcation ::: n. --> A forked exlpansion or divergence; a bifurcation; a branching.

innervate ::: v. t. --> To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.

innominate ::: a. --> Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place.
A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava.


interarboration ::: n. --> The interweaving of branches of trees.

interbranchial ::: a. --> Between the branchiae.

interlobular ::: a. --> Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.

interlucate ::: v. t. --> To let in light upon, as by cutting away branches.

interramal ::: a. --> Between rami or branches; esp., between the mandibles, or rami of the lower jaw; intermandibular.

interregnum ::: n. --> The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.
Any period during which, for any cause, the executive branch of a government is suspended or interrupted.


intralobular ::: a. --> Within lobules; as, the intralobular branches of the hepatic veins.

intrapetiolar ::: a. --> Situated between the petiole and the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.

irenics ::: n. --> That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods of securing unity among Christians or harmony and union among the churches; -- called also Irenical theology.

jesse ::: n. --> Any representation or suggestion of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art
A genealogical tree represented in stained glass.
A candlestick with many branches, each of which bears the name of some one of the descendants of Jesse; -- called also tree of Jesse.


judiciary ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to courts of judicature, or legal tribunals; judicial; as, a judiciary proceeding. ::: n. --> That branch of government in which judicial power is vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on the

kinology ::: n. --> That branch of physics which treats of the laws of motion, or of moving bodies.

laboratory ::: n. --> The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

labyrinthibranch ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthici. ::: n. --> One of the Labyrinthici.

lamellibranchia ::: n. pl. --> Alt. of Lamellibranchiata

lamellibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.

lamellibranchiate ::: a. --> Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. ::: n. --> One of the Lamellibranchia.

lamellibranch ::: n. --> One of the Lamellibranchia. Also used adjectively.

lamprey ::: n. --> An eel-like marsipobranch of the genus Petromyzon, and allied genera. The lampreys have a round, sucking mouth, without jaws, but set with numerous minute teeth, and one to three larger teeth on the palate (see Illust. of Cyclostomi). There are seven small branchial openings on each side.

lapps ::: n. pl. --> A branch of the Mongolian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.

lateral ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.
Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial.
Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing.


learning ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Learn ::: n. --> The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.
The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature;


leatherwood ::: n. --> A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy.

legitimist ::: n. --> One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right.
Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.


lenticel ::: n. --> One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.
A small, lens-shaped gland on the under side of some leaves.


lettic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish.
Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. ::: n. --> The language of the Letts; Lettish.
The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish,


lexicology ::: n. --> The science of the derivation and signification of words; that branch of learning which treats of the signification and application of words.

lichen ::: n. --> One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great tenacity. They are often improperly called rock moss or tree

limb ::: 1. One of the jointed appendages of an animal, such as an arm, leg, wing, etc. 2. A branch or part. Also fig. limbs.

limb ::: n. --> A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.
An arm or a leg of a human being; a leg, arm, or wing of an animal.
A thing or person regarded as a part or member of, or attachment to, something else.
An elementary piece of the mechanism of a lock.
A border or edge, in certain special uses.


lipocephala ::: n. pl. --> Same as Lamellibranchia.

literature ::: n. --> Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Biblical criticism; the literature of chemistry.
The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style


littorina ::: n. --> A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.

logic ::: 1. The science that investigates the principles governing correct or reliable inference. 2. The system or principles of reasoning applicable to any branch of knowledge or study. 3. Convincing forcefulness; inexorable truth or persuasiveness. logic"s.

logistics ::: n. --> That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to include strategy.
A system of arithmetic, in which numbers are expressed in a scale of 60; logistic arithmetic.


lophobranch ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii. ::: n. --> One of the Lophobranchii.

lophobranchiate ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Lophobranchii.

lophobranchii ::: n. pl. --> An order of teleostean fishes, having the gills arranged in tufts on the branchial arches, as the Hippocampus and pipefishes.

lop ::: n. --> A flea.
That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree. ::: v. t. --> To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.


lopping ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Lop ::: n. --> A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.

lumbosacral ::: n. --> Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.

lycopodiaceous ::: a. --> Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceae, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

madrepora ::: n. --> A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched.

magistrate ::: n. --> A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.

magneto-electricity ::: n. --> Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.
That branch of science which treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro-magnetism.


malacostracology ::: n. --> That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.

malebranchism ::: n. --> The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.

marsipobranchia ::: n. pl. --> A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

marsipobranch ::: n. --> One of the Marsipobranchia.

materia medica ::: --> Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.
That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.


mechanics ::: n. --> That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.

mechanurgy ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of moving machines.

medulla ::: n. --> Marrow; pith; hence, essence.
The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata.
A soft tissue, occupying the center of the stem or branch of a plant; pith.


melanian ::: n. --> One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.

menobranch ::: n. --> Alt. of Menobranchus

menobranchus ::: n. --> A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills.

mensuration ::: n. --> The act, process, or art, of measuring.
That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.


mesobranchial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.

metabranchial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.

moesogothic ::: a. --> Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia. ::: n. --> The language of the Moesogoths; -- also called Gothic.

mollusca ::: n. pl. --> One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.

mongolians ::: n. pl. --> One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.

monocephalous ::: a. --> Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.

monomyaria ::: n.pl. --> An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster.

monorhina ::: n. pl. --> The Marsipobranchiata.

morphology ::: n. --> That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.

multiramified ::: a. --> Divided into many branches.

multiramose ::: a. --> Having many branches.

mycology ::: n. --> That branch of botanical science which relates to the musgrooms and other fungi.

myrtle ::: n. --> A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.

myxine ::: n. --> A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.

myzontes ::: n. pl. --> The Marsipobranchiata.

nautilus ::: n. --> The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.
The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.


necrosis ::: n. --> Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.
A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.


neuralgia ::: n. --> A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.

neurology ::: n. --> The branch of science which treats of the nervous system.

neuropodium ::: n. --> The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium.

nidamental ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.

nightshade ::: n. --> A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.

nomenclature ::: n. --> A name.
A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary.
The technical names used in any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.


norwegian ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language. ::: n. --> A native of Norway.
That branch of the Scandinavian language spoken in Norway.


nosology ::: n. --> A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.
That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.


notobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of nudibranchiate mollusks having gills upon the back.
The Dorsibranchiata.


notobranchiate ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata.

notopodium ::: n. --> The dorsal lobe or branch of a parapodium. See Parapodium.

nucleobranch ::: a. --> Belonging to the Nucleobranchiata. ::: n. --> One of the Nucleobranchiata.

nucleobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> See Heteropoda.

nudibranch ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata. ::: n. --> One of the Nudibranchiata.

nudibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.

nudibranchiate ::: a. & n. --> Same as Nudibranch.

observantine ::: n. --> One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.

oceanology ::: n. --> That branch of science which relates to the ocean.

oculina ::: n. --> A genus of tropical corals, usually branched, and having a very volid texture.

oculonasal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.

of or pertaining to geometry, the branch of mathematics that deals with the deduction of the properties, measurement, and relationships of points, lines, angles, and figures in space.

olive ::: n. --> A tree (Olea Europaea) with small oblong or elliptical leaves, axillary clusters of flowers, and oval, one-seeded drupes. The tree has been cultivated for its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.
The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.


ology ::: n. --> A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch of knowledge.

ophthalmic ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the eye; ocular; as the ophthalmic, or orbitonasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead.

ophthalmoscopy ::: n. --> A branch of physiognomy which deduces the knowledge of a person&

opisthobranchia ::: n. pl. --> Alt. of Opisthobranchiata

opisthobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of gastropod Mollusca, in which the breathing organs are usually situated behind the heart. It includes the tectibranchs and nudibranchs.

opisthobranchiate ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the Opisthobranchiata. ::: n. --> One of the Opisthobranchiata.

optics ::: n. --> That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.

orchidology ::: n. --> The branch of botany which treats of orchids.

organogenesis ::: n. --> The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.
The germ history of the organs and systems of organs, -- a branch of morphogeny.


organology ::: n. --> The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure.
That branch of biology which treats, in particular, of the organs of animals and plants. See Morphology.


organophyly ::: n. --> The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly.

ornithichnology ::: n. --> The branch of science which treats of ornithichnites.

ornithology ::: n. --> That branch of zoology which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.
A treatise or book on this science.


orography ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.

otology ::: n. --> The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.

outrunner ::: n. --> An offshoot; a branch.

ovology ::: n. --> That branch of natural history which treats of the origin and functions of eggs.

paleichthyes ::: n. pl. --> A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids.

paleobotany ::: n. --> That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

paleornithology ::: n. --> The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.

paleozooogy ::: n. --> The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.

palliobranchiata ::: n. pl. --> Same as Brachiopoda.

palliobranchiate ::: a. --> Having the pallium, or mantle, acting as a gill, as in brachiopods.

palmer ::: v. t. --> One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. ::: n. --> A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places.
A palmerworm.


palm sunday ::: --> The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior&

paludina ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond.

panicle ::: n. --> A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

pantology ::: n. --> A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of universal information.

parabronchium ::: n. --> One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.

pathogeny ::: n. --> The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.
That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.


patronomayology ::: n. --> That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.

pectinibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of Gastropoda, including those that have a comblike gill upon the neck.

pectinibranchiate ::: a. --> Having pectinated gills.

pectinibranch ::: n. --> One of the Pectinibranchiata. Also used adjectively.

pelecypoda ::: n. pl. --> Same as Lamellibranchia.

pellibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself serves as a gill.

pennatula ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.

perennibranchiata ::: n. pl. --> Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus.

perennibranchiate ::: a. --> Having branchae, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.
Belonging to the Perennibranchiata.


peribranchial ::: a. --> Surrounding the branchiae; as, a peribranchial cavity.
Around the bronchi or bronchial tubes; as, the peribronchial lymphatics.


petition ::: n. --> A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer.
A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a


pharmacodynamics ::: n. --> That branch of pharmacology which considers the mode of action, and the effects, of medicines.

pharmacognosis ::: n. --> That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also pharmacography, and pharmacomathy.

pharyngeal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the pharynx. ::: n. --> A pharyngeal bone or cartilage; especially, one of the lower pharyngeals, which belong to the rudimentary fifth branchial arch in many fishes, or one of the upper pharyngeals, or pharyngobranchials,

pharyngobranchial ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchiae; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal. ::: n. --> A pharyngobranchial, or upper pharyngeal, bone or cartilage.

pharyngobranchii ::: n. pl. --> Same as Leptocardia.

pharynx ::: n. --> The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.

phlebology ::: n. --> A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

photochemistry ::: n. --> The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.

photomagnetism ::: n. --> The branch of science which treats of the relation of magnetism to light.

photometry ::: n. --> That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

phrenics ::: n. --> That branch of science which relates to the mind; mental philosophy.

phylactocarp ::: n. --> A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecae.

phyllobranchia ::: n. --> A crustacean gill composed of lamellae.

phyllobranciae ::: pl. --> of Phyllobranchia

phyllocladium ::: n. --> A flattened stem or branch which more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation.

phyllopoda ::: n. pl. --> An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also Branchiopoda.

phylum ::: n. --> One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.

physics ::: n. --> The science of nature, or of natural objects; that branch of science which treats of the laws and properties of matter, and the forces acting upon it; especially, that department of natural science which treats of the causes (as gravitation, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc.) that modify the general properties of bodies; natural philosophy.

physiogeny ::: n. --> The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny.

physiophyly ::: n. --> The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly.

phytolithology ::: n. --> The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology.

pinus ::: n. --> A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine.

pinweed ::: n. --> Any plant of the genus Lechea, low North American herbs with branching stems, and very small and abundant leaves and flowers.

pipefish ::: n. --> Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

pisces ::: n. pl. --> The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs.
A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish.
The class of Vertebrata that includes the fishes. The principal divisions are Elasmobranchii, Ganoidei, and Teleostei.


placoides ::: n. pl. --> A group of fishes including the sharks and rays; the Elasmobranchii; -- called also Placoidei.

plashing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Plash
of Plash ::: n. --> The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges.
The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls


plashoot ::: n. --> A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed.

platypoda ::: n. pl. --> Same as Prosobranchiata.

pleach ::: v. t. --> To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock.

pleurobranchia ::: n. --> Same as Pleurobranch.

pleurobranch ::: n. --> Any one of the gills of a crustacean that is attached to the side of the thorax.

pleuroeranchiae ::: pl. --> of Pleurobranchia

sloth ::: a sluggish natured arboreal mammal inhabiting tropical parts of Central and South America, having a long, coarse, greyish-brown coat often of a greenish cast caused by algae, and long, hooklike claws used in gripping tree branches while hanging or moving along in a habitual upside-down position.

specialist ::: one who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.

tree of cosmos ::: the tree with its roots above (in the heavens) and its branches spread downward. A common metaphor in many spiritual traditions.

trunk ::: the main stem of a tree, usually thick and upright, covered with bark and having branches at some distance from the ground. trunks.

tutors ::: persons employed to instruct others in some branch or branches of learning, esp. private instructors.

veins ::: one of the systems of branching vessels or tubes conveying blood from various parts of the body to the heart.

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1:On a branch
floating downriver
a cricket, singing. ~ Kobayashi Issa,
2:The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exists because of the fruit. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,
3:When, by practice, the mind stands still, all illusions of samsara disappear, root and branch. ~ Advaita Bodha Deepika,
4:Falling blossoms
returning to the branch
watching butterflies
~ Moritake, @BashoSociety
5:a bird perched
on a bare branch
autumn evening
~ Matsuo Basho, @BashoSociety
6:O green branch, God foresaw your flowering On the first day of His Creation. And out of His own Word, most worthy Virgin He made golden matter. ~ Hildegard, 'O virga, folriditatem tuam',
7:Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds." ~ Regina Brett,
8:As a ripe fruit is at every moment in peril of detaching itself from the branch, so every creature born lives under a perpetual menace of death. ~ Buddhist Texts, the Eternal Wisdom
9:A branch detached from the contiguous branch must needs be detached from the whole tree: even so man separated even from a single man is detached from the whole society. ~ Marcus Aurelius, the Eternal Wisdom
10:Each portion of matter may be conceived as like a garden full of plants and like a pond full of fishes. But each branch of every plant, each member of every animal, each drop of its liquid parts is also some rich garden or pond. ~ Leibniz, Monadology 65-66,
11:The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
   Here we face a critical branch point in history, what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants.
   In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours. ~ Carl Sagan,
12:Every sixty seconds, thirty acres of rain forest are destroyed in order to raise beef for fast-food restaurants that sell it to people, giving them strokes and heart attacks, which raise medical costs and insurance rates, providing insurance companies with more money to invest in large corporations that branch out further into the Third World so they can destroy more rain forests. ~ George Carlin,
13:In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others. In the almost unfathomable Ts'ui Pen, he chooses - simultaneously - all of them. He thus creates various futures, various times which start others that will in their turn branch out and bifurcate in other times. That is the cause of the contradictions in the novel." ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden Of Forking Paths,
14: Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies. ~ Étienne de La Boétie, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude,
15:Those worlds in space are as countless as all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth. Each of those worlds is as real as ours and every one of them is a succession of incidents, events, occurrences which influence its future. Countless worlds, numberless moments, an immensity of space and time. And our small planet at this moment, here we face a critical branch point in history, what we do with our world, right now, will propagate down through the centuries and powerfully affect the destiny of our descendants, it is well within our power to destroy our civilization and perhaps our species as well. If we capitulate to superstition or greed or stupidity we could plunge our world into a time of darkness deeper than the time between the collapse of classical civilisation and the Italian Renaissance. But we are also capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. ~ Carl Sagan,
16:Mental Education

OF ALL lines of education, mental education is the most widely known and practised, yet except in a few rare cases there are gaps which make it something very incomplete and in the end quite insufficient.

   Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.

   A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:

   (1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention.
   (2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness.
   (3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life.
   (4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one wants.
   (5) Development of mental silence, perfect calm and a more and more total receptivity to inspirations coming from the higher regions of the being.

   It is not possible to give here all the details concerning the methods to be employed in the application of these five phases of education to different individuals. Still, a few explanations on points of detail can be given.

   Undeniably, what most impedes mental progress in children is the constant dispersion of their thoughts. Their thoughts flutter hither and thither like butterflies and they have to make a great effort to fix them. Yet this capacity is latent in them, for when you succeed in arousing their interest, they are capable of a good deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action that is most important and the sovereign method is to arouse in the child an interest in what you want to teach him, a liking for work, a will to progress. To love to learn is the most precious gift that one can give to a child: to love to learn always and everywhere, so that all circumstances, all happenings in life may be constantly renewed opportunities for learning more and always more.

   For that, to attention and concentration should be added observation, precise recording and faithfulness of memory. This faculty of observation can be developed by varied and spontaneous exercises, making use of every opportunity that presents itself to keep the child's thought wakeful, alert and prompt. The growth of the understanding should be stressed much more than that of memory. One knows well only what one has understood. Things learnt by heart, mechanically, fade away little by little and finally disappear; what is understood is never forgotten. Moreover, you must never refuse to explain to a child the how and the why of things. If you cannot do it yourself, you must direct the child to those who are qualified to answer or point out to him some books that deal with the question. In this way you will progressively awaken in the child the taste for true study and the habit of making a persistent effort to know.

   This will bring us quite naturally to the second phase of development in which the mind should be widened and enriched.

   You will gradually show the child that everything can become an interesting subject for study if it is approached in the right way. The life of every day, of every moment, is the best school of all, varied, complex, full of unexpected experiences, problems to be solved, clear and striking examples and obvious consequences. It is so easy to arouse healthy curiosity in children, if you answer with intelligence and clarity the numerous questions they ask. An interesting reply to one readily brings others in its train and so the attentive child learns without effort much more than he usually does in the classroom. By a choice made with care and insight, you should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy.

   In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only that he studies many varied topics, but above all that a single subject is approached in various ways, so that the child understands in a practical manner that there are many ways of facing the same intellectual problem, of considering it and solving it. This will remove all rigidity from his brain and at the same time it will make his thinking richer and more supple and prepare it for a more complex and comprehensive synthesis. In this way also the child will be imbued with the sense of the extreme relativity of mental learning and, little by little, an aspiration for a truer source of knowledge will awaken in him.

   Indeed, as the child grows older and progresses in his studies, his mind too ripens and becomes more and more capable of forming general ideas, and with them almost always comes a need for certitude, for a knowledge that is stable enough to form the basis of a mental construction which will permit all the diverse and scattered and often contradictory ideas accumulated in his brain to be organised and put in order. This ordering is indeed very necessary if one is to avoid chaos in one's thoughts. All contradictions can be transformed into complements, but for that one must discover the higher idea that will have the power to bring them harmoniously together. It is always good to consider every problem from all possible standpoints so as to avoid partiality and exclusiveness; but if the thought is to be active and creative, it must, in every case, be the natural and logical synthesis of all the points of view adopted. And if you want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise.

   It goes without saying that this work of organisation cannot be done once and for all. The mind, if it is to keep its vigour and youth, must progress constantly, revise its notions in the light of new knowledge, enlarge its frame-work to include fresh notions and constantly reclassify and reorganise its thoughts, so that each of them may find its true place in relation to the others and the whole remain harmonious and orderly.

   All that has just been said concerns the speculative mind, the mind that learns. But learning is only one aspect of mental activity; the other, which is at least equally important, is the constructive faculty, the capacity to form and thus prepare action. This very important part of mental activity has rarely been the subject of any special study or discipline. Only those who want, for some reason, to exercise a strict control over their mental activities think of observing and disciplining this faculty of formation; and as soon as they try it, they have to face difficulties so great that they appear almost insurmountable.

   And yet control over this formative activity of the mind is one of the most important aspects of self-education; one can say that without it no mental mastery is possible. As far as study is concerned, all ideas are acceptable and should be included in the synthesis, whose very function is to become more and more rich and complex; but where action is concerned, it is just the opposite. The ideas that are accepted for translation into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the synthesis; if not, it will be rejected so that it can have no influence on the action. This work of mental purification should be done very regularly in order to secure a complete control over one's actions.

   For this purpose, it is good to set apart some time every day when one can quietly go over one's thoughts and put one's synthesis in order. Once the habit is acquired, you can maintain control over your thoughts even during work and action, allowing only those which are useful for what you are doing to come to the surface. Particularly, if you have continued to cultivate the power of concentration and attention, only the thoughts that are needed will be allowed to enter the active external consciousness and they then become all the more dynamic and effective. And if, in the intensity of concentration, it becomes necessary not to think at all, all mental vibration can be stilled and an almost total silence secured. In this silence one can gradually open to the higher regions of the mind and learn to record the inspirations that come from there.

   But even before reaching this point, silence in itself is supremely useful, because in most people who have a somewhat developed and active mind, the mind is never at rest. During the day, its activity is kept under a certain control, but at night, during the sleep of the body, the control of the waking state is almost completely removed and the mind indulges in activities which are sometimes excessive and often incoherent. This creates a great stress which leads to fatigue and the diminution of the intellectual faculties.

   The fact is that like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and it will not have this rest unless we know how to provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep.

   When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive silence, then there will be no problem that cannot be solved, no mental difficulty whose solution cannot be found. When it is agitated, thought becomes confused and impotent; in an attentive tranquillity, the light can manifest itself and open up new horizons to man's capacity. Bulletin, November 1951

   ~ The Mother, On Education,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:In war the olive branch of peace is of use. ~ ovid, @wisdomtrove
2:The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
3:Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
4:Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch. ~ mother-teresa, @wisdomtrove
5:Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. ~ john-keats, @wisdomtrove
6:Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit. ~ andrew-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
7:Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
8:Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
9:Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
10:Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove
11:The superiority... enjoyed by nations that have... perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a... formidable obstacle. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove
12:[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
13:Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ~ victor-hugo, @wisdomtrove
14: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. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove
15:Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
16:The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
17:When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
18:Think on this doctrine, hat reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it. ~ marcus-aurelius, @wisdomtrove
19:First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
20:I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations . ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove
21:It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
22:Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
23:. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove
24:Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
25:Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
26:War is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove
27:At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
28:Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond. ~ gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz, @wisdomtrove
29:I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer. ~ a-a-milne, @wisdomtrove
30:The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter. ~ benjamin-disraeli, @wisdomtrove
31:For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant. ~ martin-luther, @wisdomtrove
32:I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove
33:Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences. ~ blaise-pascal, @wisdomtrove
34:Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
35: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. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove
36:Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the purpose of the branch, but it is not the responsibility of the branch. The branch cannot produce anything on it's own. However, if it remains attached to the vine, it will receive life-sustaining sap, nourishment, strength, everything it needs. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
37:Unreason is now ascendant in the United States - in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
38:Unreason is now ascendant in the United States in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution ; 68 percent believe in Satan . Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world . ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
39:As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove
40:The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove
41:The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
42:If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils. ~ charles-darwin, @wisdomtrove
43:You accept something, or somebody, unknown as true. Now, if you act on the truth you have accepted, even for a moment, very soon you will be brought to the next step. It is like climbing a tree in the dark - you can get hold of the next branch only when you are perched on the previous one. In science, it is called the experimental approach. ~ sri-nisargadatta-maharaj, @wisdomtrove
44:There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
45:We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life. ~ joseph-campbell, @wisdomtrove
46:We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
47:For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
48:The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash! ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
49:Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime. ~ henry-wadsworth-longfellow, @wisdomtrove
50:Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . . ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
51:Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma (&
52:The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
53:Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
54:Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove
55:Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
56:Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew... .Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years... .The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology... .The next step is in space. It's inevitable. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
57:It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to make cynical use of scientific language in an effort to rationalize the glaring inadequacies of tbe Bible. A handful of Christians appear to have done this; some have even obtained their degrees from reputable universities. No doubt, others will follow in their footsteps. While such people are technically "scientists," they are not behaving like scientists. They simply are not engaged in an honest inquiry into the nature of the universe. And their proclamations about God and the failures of Darwinism do not in the least signify that there is a legitimate scientific controversy about evolution. ~ sam-harris, @wisdomtrove
58:The orthodox branch of humanism holds that each human being is a unique individual possessing a distinctive inner voice and a never-to-be-repeated string of experiences. Every human being is a singular ray of light, which illuminates the world from a different perspective, and which adds colour, depth and meaning to the universe. Hence we ought to give as much freedom as possible to every individual to experience the world, follow his or her inner voice and express his or her inner truth. Whether in politics, economics or art, individual free will should have far more weight than state interests or religious doctrines. The more liberty individuals enjoy, the more beautiful, rich and meaningful is the world. Due to this emphasis on liberty, the orthodox branch of humanism is known as ‘liberal humanism’ or simply as ‘liberalism’. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove

*** NEWFULLDB 2.4M ***

1:When (Rube) Waddell ~ Branch Rickey,
2:A full mind is an empty bat. ~ Branch Rickey,
3:Luck is a residue of design. ~ Branch Rickey,
4:Baseball is a game of inches. ~ Branch Rickey,
5:Fiction is a branch of neurology ~ J G Ballard,
6:In the one branch he most needed ~ Henry Adams,
7:alcohol played the midwife ~ James Branch Cabell,
8:History is the key to citizenship. ~ Taylor Branch,
9:In war the olive branch of peace is of use. ~ Ovid,
10:Branch Rickey made me a better man. ~ Branch Rickey,
11:Exaggeration is a branch of lying. ~ Baltasar Gracian,
12:I am a monstrous clever fellow. ~ James Branch Cabell,
13:Childhood is a branch of cartography. ~ Michael Chabon,
14:He's the best prospect I've ever seen. ~ Branch Rickey,
15:The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: ~ Rumi,
16:Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. ~ Branch Rickey,
17:Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss. ~ Henning Mankell,
18:Never surrender opportunity to security. ~ Branch Rickey,
19:Before Julia Child there was only onion dip. ~ Susan Branch,
20:Hee that loves the tree, loves the branch. ~ George Herbert,
21:I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology. ~ Thomas Nagel,
22:The only feeling stronger than loss is love. ~ Susan Branch,
23:Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, ~ Rumi,
24:Problems are the price you pay for progress. ~ Branch Rickey,
25:The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine. ~ Max Lucado,
26:I always go heavy and I always go to failure. ~ Branch Warren,
27:Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ~ Yasser Arafat,
28:Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. ~ Branch Rickey,
29:Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. ~ Frank Zappa,
30:Geometry is the noblest branch of physics. ~ William Fogg Osgood,
31:You’re so fat… you broke a branch in your family tree! ~ Various,
32:Don’t let a dying branch take you down with it. ~ Nicole Williams,
33:On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening ~ Matsuo Bash,
34:On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening ~ Matsuo Basho,
35:Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another. ~ Margaret Atwood,
36:The executive branch maneuvered this result deftly. ~ Andrew Cohen,
37:Wandlore is a complex and mysterious branch of magic. ~ J K Rowling,
38:Watch what people do, don't listen to what they say. ~ Susan Branch,
39:Death of a part is agony

- from "The Red Branch ~ Donald Hall,
40:Your best opportunities are out on the skinny branch. ~ Lisa Nichols,
41:But even the strongest tree can have a weak branch. ~ Cassandra Clare,
42:He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch. ~ Lee Child,
43:I like to begin where winds shake the first branch. ~ Odysseus Elytis,
44:Once fallen, the blossom doesn't return to the branch ~ Lesley Downer,
45:A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance. ~ Branch Rickey,
46:Evan a monkey misses an occasional branch and falls. ~ Haruki Murakami,
47:Even a monkey misses an occasional branch and falls. ~ Haruki Murakami,
48:Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic ~ James Branch Cabell,
49:Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature. ~ Thomas M Disch,
50:To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. ~ Ann Plato,
51:We are one at the root - we just part at the branch ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru,
52:Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is ~ James Branch Cabell,
53:Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil. ~ Branch Rickey,
54:Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity. ~ Tim Crane,
55:On a branch
floating downriver
a cricket, singing. ~ Kobayashi Issa,
56:Theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. ~ Sam Harris,
57:A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling. ~ Robert Jordan,
58:Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca,
59:Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. ~ Dante Alighieri,
60:The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch. ~ Plato,
61:Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late. ~ Branch Rickey,
62:The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War. ~ Branch Rickey,
63:I takes a pretty special man to take the place of no man at all. ~ Susan Branch,
64:It takes a pretty special man to take the place of no man at all. ~ Susan Branch,
65:It takes a pretty special man to take the place to no man at all. ~ Susan Branch,
66:…nobody can live longer in peace than his neighbor chooses. ~ James Branch Cabell,
67:Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.” —Frank Zappa ~ Robert H Lustig,
68:Branch Best’s underwear up for auction. Starting price one dollar. ~ Adriana Locke,
69:It melted into the shadows. It had left no tracks; only a branch, ~ Michelle Paver,
70:probability is principally a branch of applied skepticism, ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
71:The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball. ~ Branch Rickey,
72:Don't look at the hole in the doughnut. Look at the whole doughnut. ~ Branch Rickey,
73:[The judiciary is] the least dangerous branch of our government. ~ Alexander Bickel,
74:You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell. ~ Publilius Syrus,
75:How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. ~ Branch Rickey,
76:Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is. (1879-1958) ~ James Branch Cabell,
77:I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music. ~ Tom Stoppard,
78:Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity. ~ Branch Rickey,
79:It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his. ~ James Branch Cabell,
80:People never want to be told anything they do not believe already. ~ James Branch Cabell,
81:She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire) ~ Kate Atkinson,
82:Womangrove root and firefern lined the banks, and each branch and twisting ~ Dan Simmons,
83:How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. ~ Andre Gide,
84:I do not like the orangeness; it erases every tree, every branch, every leaf. ~ Ned Hayes,
85:In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing. ~ Patton Oswalt,
86:Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes. ~ Freeman Dyson,
87:That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson,
88:Let the apple ripen
on the branch
beyond your need
to take it down. ~ David Whyte,
89:I have a duty to protect the Executive Branch from legislative encroachment. ~ George W Bush,
90:I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other. ~ Ice T,
91:Sometimes the best lie was just the truth left to ripen on the branch too long. ~ Lou Berney,
92:When sakura fall from the branch, the shock waves can shatter entire cities. ~ Will Ferguson,
93:I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan. ~ Margaret Sanger,
94:Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse. ~ Branch Rickey,
95:On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins. ~ King James I,
96:she looks like she fell out the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. ~ Lauren Rowe,
97:It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind. ~ Branch Rickey,
98:Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values. ~ Taylor Branch,
99:Philosophy is a root of science. Science is a branch of a philosophical tree. ~ Santosh Kalwar,
100:Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec,
101:Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
102:Unlike those in other professions, artists cut the branch they are sitting on. ~ Sarah Thornton,
103:You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me. ~ Robert Duncan,
104:It's just cool to do something different and branch out and dabble in different genres. ~ Lights,
105:Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred? ~ Don Williams,
106:Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love. ~ Leonard Cohen,
107:...you look like you fell out of a crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down. ~ Jim Butcher,
108:Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again ~ William Carlos Williams,
109:He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology. ~ Dizzy Dean,
110:Martin Luther King was never an up close and personal figure in the United States. ~ Taylor Branch,
111:Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch. ~ Mother Teresa,
112:And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him. ~ Jack Kerouac,
113:You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down. ~ Vincent Zandri,
114:An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch. ~ Loren D Estleman,
115:History is a branch of mathematics. So is literature. Economics is a branch of religion. ~ Matt Haig,
116:She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree. ~ Marisha Pessl,
117:The world’s not so simple anymore, I guess it never was. We ignored it, now we can’t. ~ Branch Rickey,
118:You wanna be big, you lift big weights. You wanna be little, you lift little weights. ~ Branch Warren,
119:And from a branch in the tall tree, a small gray squirrel released a mighty roar. ~ Elizabeth Mckenzie,
120:I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing. ~ Richard Peck,
121:It wasn't a matter of jumping on the bandwagon; it was a matter of being run over by it. ~ Susan Branch,
122:Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. ~ John Keats,
123:The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. ~ George W Bush,
124:The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child. ~ A R Rahman,
125:I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life. ~ James Branch Cabell,
126:Just when you think you have everything figured out, you discover you know nothing at all. ~ Susan Branch,
127:Never saw the branch you are sittin on, unless they are trying to hang you from it. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec,
128:The religion of Hell is patriotism, and the government is an enlightened democracy. ~ James Branch Cabell,
129:Your whole family fell from the crazy tree and hit every damn branch on the way down. ~ Alexandra Bracken,
130:That has been challenging but also such a pleasure to branch out and do different things. ~ Sophia Amoruso,
131:Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. ~ Branch Rickey,
132:The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch. ~ Julius Streicher,
133:The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch. ~ Karen Maezen Miller,
134:The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. ~ James Branch Cabell,
135:What I want to do has no end, since I am on the endless frontier of a branch of knowledge. ~ Joseph M Juran,
136:He (Leo Durocher) had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse. ~ Branch Rickey,
137:The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
138:Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must. ~ Branch Rickey,
139:Worry is simply thinking the same thing over and over again and not doing anything about it. ~ Branch Rickey,
140:I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. ~ Annie Lennox,
141:The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. ~ Branch Rickey,
142:A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists. ~ Ivan Turgenev,
143:Every time a branch of mine got to being a decent size, that wind just came along and broke it. ~ Colum McCann,
144:Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies. ~ Taylor Branch,
145:Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse. ~ Terence McKenna,
146:The harder you work and the more you sear and bleed for a win, the sweeter that victory tastes. ~ Branch Warren,
147:Me do not live as you do. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent to far. ~ Holly Black,
148:The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. ~ Anne Sexton,
149:We love until we do not. For us, love doesn't fade gradually. It snaps like a branch bent too far. ~ Holly Black,
150:We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. ~ Byron White,
151:In no other branch of mathematics is it so easy for experts to blunder as in probability theory. ~ Martin Gardner,
152:In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only. ~ Alexander Kotov,
153:Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit. ~ Andrew Carnegie,
154:Chaldean roots which are surely to be traced in the Cornish branch of the great Celtic speech. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
155:We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. ~ John Engler,
156:Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. ~ Stephen Jay Gould,
157:That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit. ~ James Branch Cabell,
158:There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. ~ James Branch Cabell,
159:History, therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of philosophy. ~ Ibn Khaldun,
160:Ninja therapy is a completely different branch. I could never do that. I don’t even like wearing black. ~ Dana Marton,
161:Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics ~ Benoit Mandelbrot,
162:Down one branch, she lifts the glass to her lips, toasts the room—To Tachigali versicolor—and drinks. ~ Richard Powers,
163:Greenness hangs, drips and sways from every branch and twig and frond in the surging luxuriance of July. ~ Anita Desai,
164:I did not mind the public criticism. That sort of thing has not changed any program I thought was good. ~ Branch Rickey,
165:Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. ~ Arthur Machen,
166:The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. The question was when it would fall. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
167:I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity. ~ Branch Warren,
168:Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall. ~ Frederick Buechner,
169:All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. ~ Jeremy Bentham,
170:Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how. ~ Steven D Levitt,
171:I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days. ~ Bernie Worrell,
172:No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made it. ~ Trey Gowdy,
173:We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player. ~ Branch Rickey,
174:I have always wanted to branch off and become a fashion guru. I want to share my artistic views with the world. ~ A J McLean,
175:Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. ~ Nhat Hanh,
176:Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. ~ Daniel Handler,
177:How easily life can end on a misunderstanding. How fragile we all are, like spider silk on a branch of thorns. I ~ Stacey Lee,
178:I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game. ~ Aries Spears,
179:The act of connection produces a fork in causality, the new branch causally unique. A stub, as we call them. ~ William Gibson,
180:The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. The only question was when it would fall. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
181:Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. ~ Alan Watts,
182:In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate. ~ Lincoln Chafee,
183:Congress is the most powerful branch. It can expand a progressive society, or it can block a progressive society. ~ Ralph Nader,
184:every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. ~ Alan W Watts,
185:I am a Topshop homing pigeon! I can walk into the Oxford Circus branch and ferret out the best bits in minutes. ~ Ashley Madekwe,
186:If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. ~ Branch Rickey,
187:The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. The only question was whether it would fall. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
188:You really thought I was the prettiest girl in Magnolia Branch?”
“I still do, Jemma,” he says, his voice quiet. ~ Kristi Cook,
189:Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse. ~ Leo Durocher,
190:It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology. ~ A J Ayer,
191:And the eye adjusts itself to a twilight Where the dead stone is seen to be batrachian, The aphyllous branch ophidian. ~ T S Eliot,
192:It was as though I saw for the first time that
life could branch into different paths, take different directions. ~ Ally Condie,
193:An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left. ~ Lawrence Durrell,
194:History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches. ~ Lord Acton,
195:The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ James Branch Cabell,
196:Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch. ~ Rajneesh,
197:Cinderella was grateful for the shade as she tried bending the willow branch and was whacked in the face for her efforts. ~ K M Shea,
198:Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. ~ Milton Friedman,
199:Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong ~ James Branch Cabell,
200:It may be an olive branch that was still attached to a tree. A twisted tree which rotted from the inside out. ~ Tamara Rose Blodgett,
201:No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,
202:No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them. ~ James Branch Cabell,
203:Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity. ~ Bhartrhari,
204:Writing about yourself seems to be a lot like sticking a branch into clear river-water and rolling up the muddy bottom. ~ Stephen King,
205:If you cry, catch your tears in a cup, sprinkle them on your lover's pillow~ he will experience a great change of heart. ~ Susan Branch,
206: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. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
207:Paco had a way with plants.....Sara believed that whenever he walked under a tree it
grew a new branch to shade him. ~ Harriet Doerr,
208:Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design. ~ Branch Rickey,
209:It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
210:It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF IN YOURSELF. ~ Branch Warren,
211:I was a pebble. I was a leave. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
212:There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves. ~ Saul Williams,
213:Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. ~ Sam Harris,
214:You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said. ~ Rachel Caine,
215:A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not on the branch but on its own wings. ~ Anonymous,
216:Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters. ~ Jonathan Karl,
217:Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of. ~ George Leonard,
218:I'm Liam of Erinthia. I'm here to rescue you ... And You are not Cinderella. You are a tree branch wrapped in a sheet ~ Christopher Healy,
219:Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. ~ J G Ballard,
220:Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents. ~ Ezra Stiles,
221:like I had tumbled from the sky and hit every forest branch on the way down. Like a baby bird with featherless wings. ~ Charlie N Holmberg,
222:Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! ~ Swami Vivekananda,
223:The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle. ~ Alexander Hamilton,
224:Well? Is it true? Did she?"
"Did she what?"
"You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down? ~ Kami Garcia,
225:He felt enormously tired, as if he were an autumn leaf and his season were over. He felt ready to fall from the branch. ~ Caroline B Cooney,
226:I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable. ~ Branch Rickey,
227:I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form. ~ St Lucia,
228:Let them come with their night-vision glasses and their heavy, branch-breaking bodies. Right into the range of my arrows. ~ Suzanne Collins,
229:There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. ~ Nikolai Lobachevsky,
230:What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. ~ Terry Pratchett,
231:What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform. ~ Tony Blair,
232:You hated me that much?'

'No.' I grabbed a branch and pulled myself up, my back still to him. 'I missed you that much. ~ Bree Despain,
233:Be like a branch of a tree; flex your body to face 'wind of sorrow'; flex little harder to dance in the 'wind of happiness'. ~ Santosh Kalwar,
234:There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson. ~ Branch Rickey,
235:I did,” he replied ruefully. “But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two. ~ John Flanagan,
236:I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up. ~ Stanislaw Lem,
237:[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. ~ Isaac Asimov,
238:When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder. ~ Branch Warren,
239:Be a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ~ Victor Hugo,
240:I do not believe that the founding fathers intended for a fourth branch of government to emerge — that of special interest groups. ~ Ben Carson,
241:Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning. ~ Bertrand Russell,
242:Remember, childhood only lasts 10-12 years. There's a lot that has to be squeezed in to make for a lifetime of happy memories. ♥ ~ Susan Branch,
243:The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights. ~ Herb Kohl,
244:Don't worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too. ~ Branch Rickey,
245:Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. ~ Branch Rickey,
246:Evan is the little branch growing out of the cliff that she clings to, and the fact that he's gone makes her hang on even tighter. ~ Rick Yancey,
247:Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. ~ Christina Rossetti,
248:I think that strength levels go hand in hand with building a great physique. You've got to lift heavy weight to get big - period. ~ Branch Warren,
249:I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch. ~ Paul Ryan,
250:JOB14.7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. ~ Anonymous,
251:Our executive branch does not believe in interfering with what the legislative branch chooses to do. We believe in federalism. ~ Kellyanne Conway,
252:Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. ~ Victor Hugo,
253:Down another branch, this one, she shouts, “Here’s to unsuicide,” and flings the cup of swirling green over the gasping audience. ~ Richard Powers,
254:Ever since we picked up a stick to reach a higher branch, we have used our tools to extend our reach, both physically and mentally. ~ Ray Kurzweil,
255:The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it. ~ Simone Weil,
256:You know what happens when you ask too many questions, Dizzy? Someone will ultimately tell you to shut the fuck up. (Mr. Branch) ~ Brian Azzarello,
257:Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. ~ Branch Rickey,
258:Par for the course when it comes to the Branch. They're always holding people prisoner, and people are always trying to break free. ~ Jennifer Rush,
259:They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy ~ Jorge Luis Borges,
260:If you cry, catch your tears in a cup, sprinkle them on your lover's pillow~ Susan Branch he will experience a great change of heart. ~ Susan Branch,
261:Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit". ~ Max Lucado,
262:A thousand Dreams within me softly burn: From time to time my heart is like some oak Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn. ~ Arthur Rimbaud,
263:... because commonsensically speaking, a room full of good books had to better for your health than a room with no books in it at all. ~ Susan Branch,
264:I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world ~ Liam Neeson,
265:I know what you're thinking.Girlfriend has fallen out of the stoopid tree and bonked her head against every branch on the way down. ~ Jennifer Echols,
266:I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly. ~ Suzanne Collins,
267:The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly. ~ Zhuangzi,
268:To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout. ~ Umberto Eco,
269:All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
270:A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. ~ Charles Babbage,
271:I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ~ Yasser Arafat,
272:If he really sought to reconcile himself like a dutiful branch, he must be forgiven for having dismembered himself from the paternal tree. ~ Anonymous,
273:Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ~ Francis Cornford,
274:Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? ~ George Gissing,
275:Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,
276:He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
277:So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back. ~ Cynthia Hand,
278:The buildings were as real yet ethereal as the abandoned shell of a cicada, clinging to a tree branch, molded by the life it once held. ~ Linda Lafferty,
279:The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take. ~ Robert Zoellick,
280:As the sweet apple reddens on a high branch, high on the highest branch the apple pickers forgot -- no, not forgot: were unable to reach. ~ Kathryn Davis,
281:I do think that there has to be a legal solution, a legal solution on the part of the nation's legislative branch, an immigration proposal. ~ Marco Rubio,
282:I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces. ~ Michel Hazanavicius,
283:We came to woodlands, with leaves unfurling on every branch, as if one blow of spring's green hammer had set them exploding from the bud. ~ Mark Lawrence,
284:It matches the capacity of evil to inflict suffering with an even more enduring capacity to absorb evil, all the while persisting in love. ~ Taylor Branch,
285:I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. ~ Haruki Murakami,
286:The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government. ~ Taylor Branch,
287:A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn. ~ Arthur Rimbaud,
288:En route, Perkins revolutionized insurance sales, replacing the agency system with branch offices, and offered employees profit sharing. ~ Kenneth L Fisher,
289:The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner. ~ Mary McCarthy,
290:The whole universe is in darkness, but we remain lit. We're a tiny bird tied to a branch in the dark forest, with a spotlight trained on on us. ~ Liu Cixin,
291:But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating
conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. ~ James Branch Cabell,
292: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. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
293:Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority. ~ Diane Watson,
294:We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes—an interesting side branch. ~ Bill Bryson,
295:The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary. ~ Stephen Jay Gould,
296:As Mark Twain said, “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” (And every other branch of the federal government.) ~ P J O Rourke,
297:every time you see a branch you should ask why it’s there and look for process changes that will address the same need without creating branches. ~ Gary Gruver,
298:Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful. ~ Bob Hoskins,
299:The whistle dropped from the branch's spindly fingers like a black cocoon, a pendulum of secret music; the wind pushed sound soundlessly around. ~ Karen Russell,
300:The worst part was the fear - looking down at the rushing water that seemed miles away. But once you were on that branch, there was no going back. ~ Liz Kessler,
301:As a ripe fruit is at every moment in peril of detaching itself from the branch, so every creature born lives under a perpetual menace of death. ~ Buddhist Texts,
302:There are some Buddhist philosophers (a branch referred to as Zen) who say that sometimes a bad thing happens to prevent a worse thing happening, ~ Kate Atkinson,
303:With multicellular organisms, finally, complex societies with a division of labor appear on the macroscopic branch. ~ Erich Jantsch, The Self-Organizing Universe,
304:4[†] y Abide  z in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. ~ Anonymous,
305:At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It became a sapling, which became a seed. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
306:I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. ~ Mahmoud Abbas,
307:I'm a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It's kind of exciting - the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you're sitting on. ~ David Lodge,
308:True. But you’re better than I am, Katsa. And it doesn’t humiliate me.” He fed a branch to the fire. “It humbles me. But it doesn’t humiliate me. ~ Kristin Cashore,
309:...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.

[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates. ~ James Branch Cabell,
310:Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burnèd is Apollo's laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learnèd man. ~ Christopher Marlowe,
311:My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978. ~ George Carlin,
312:We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who do not possess it. ~ John Stuart Mill,
313:Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. ~ William Faulkner,
314:I train for two reasons. Number one, I love working out, and number two, I want to win. You can't win if you don't train to the best of your ability. ~ Branch Warren,
315:People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table. ~ Connie Willis,
316:So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter ~ Suzanne Collins,
317:That was some branch. Did it have a vendetta against your t-shirt?”
“Guess so.”
“I hope you showed it who is boss.”
“Yeah, I peed on it. ~ Stacey Marie Brown,
318:The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity. ~ George Washington,
319:Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins. ~ John Banville,
320:The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. ~ Marie Antoine Careme,
321:As soon as I turned toward the steps, my vision filled with the magnificence of the large oak tree. And there, rocking from its branch, was the swing. ~ Rebecca Donovan,
322:The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom. ~ Thomas A Edison,
323:This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce,
324:When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. ~ C S Lewis,
325:I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do. ~ Branch Rickey,
326:In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly. ~ Matt LeBlanc,
327:In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data. ~ James Clerk Maxwell,
328:She was willow-branch thin, had a cap of yellow hair, and a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup. ~ Sarah Addison Allen,
329:Como observa el satírico James Branch Cabell, «los optimistas dicen que vivimos en el mejor de los mundos posibles; los pesimistas temen que sea verdad».528 ~ Don Tapscott,
330:I saw no reason why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since. ~ Robertson Davies,
331:[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television. ~ Harrison Ford,
332:Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future. ~ David Gemmell,
333:That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass. ~ Joan Miro,
334:Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. ~ John B S Haldane,
335: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. ~ Paul Ryan,
336:The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs. ~ Christopher Columbus,
337:What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. ~ Terry Pratchett,
338:He filled in the hole, stomping over the grave to compact the earth. Then he swept the ground with a branch, covering the freshly dug earth with dead leaves. ~ Melinda Leigh,
339:The shipping department at Central moves thirty-two thousand books—the equivalent of an entire branch library—around the city of Los Angeles five days a week. ~ Susan Orlean,
340:A dry white branch of lightning cracked off from the sky and hit the horizon, then evaporated. I did what any sensible person would do. I put on my sunglasses. ~ Rick Riordan,
341: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. ~ Henry James,
342:Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. ~ Branch Rickey,
343:Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone. ~ Christopher Marlowe,
344:Every branch kept breaking even in six months, and before they knew it, Info Edge was a 300-person sales organisation with 10-12 offices all over India. There ~ Rashmi Bansal,
345:Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress. ~ Jay Rockefeller,
346:Let us be like a bird for a moment perched
On a frail branch when he sings;
Though he feels it bend, yet he sings his song,
Knowing that he has wings. ~ Victor Hugo,
347:Like a dead branch falling from a tree, which them decomposes and nourishes the soil, your disappointments can transform into the elements of change and growth. ~ Ethan Hawke,
348:Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are. ~ Hal Porter,
349:[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we understand more. ~ Philip Jones Griffiths,
350:When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. ~ C S Lewis,
351:A good quote is a beautiful inspirational spring branch in the reader’s mind; it is a powerful propulsive force too, just like a wind! All men need winds! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
352:More often than not, it was the hand of the needy and uncertain that extended the olive branch. History had shown the truth of that over and over again. ~ Michael Jan Friedman,
353:"Myth is not much to do with the past, but a kind of magical present that can flood our lives when the conditions are just so." ~ Martin Shaw, A Branch From the Lightning Tree,
354:Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. ~ Maurice Kendall,
355:Until the sixth decade of the century, therefore, these organisms, which have since become the basis of a new branch of science, had hardly emerged from obscurity. ~ Anonymous,
356:grown steadily throughout the South ever since. The Mt. Jefferson branch was the twenty-third to open, and Milton felt lucky to be part of such a flourishing company. ~ Don Reid,
357:I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit. ~ Christian Slater,
358:Ive been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional responsibilities to the fullest. ~ John Engler,
359:When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If ~ C S Lewis,
360:Surely there must come a time when we will acknowledge the obvious: theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings. ~ Sam Harris,
361:As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion. ~ J Gordon Melton,
362:The care of the body, under the intelligent control of the mind, is an important branch of yogi philosophy, and is known as ‘Hatha Yoga,’ ” Ramacharaka writes. ~ Michelle Goldberg,
363:We're the only ones left from those withered days. The last two leaves still clinging to the branch waiting to fall. Waiting for the wind to severe us into the sky. ~ Tan Twan Eng,
364:What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? ~ James Madison,
365: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. ~ Elizabeth Clare Prophet,
366:I'd love to branch out but I have absolutely no interest in romance. I just don't. The thought of trying to write a rom-com ... it just completely skeeves me out. No! ~ Nancy Grace,
367:if i am the only one who can be the wilderness then let me be the wilderness the tree trunk cannot become the branch the jungle cannot become the garden so why should i ~ Rupi Kaur,
368:In more recent testimony he added, “The president has in fact exceeded his authority in a way that is creating a destabilizing influence in a three-branch system. ~ Andrew McCarthy,
369:Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
370:The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. ~ James Madison,
371:And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other? ~ Czeslaw Milosz,
372:In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so. ~ Adam Smith,
373:Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.” —JOHN 15:4 ~ Sarah Young,
374:That [film What's My Line] was very useful to me because it had Branch Rickey in a social situation. Every other bit of film [42] that I had was him making a speech. ~ Harrison Ford,
375:When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind ~ Gerald Durrell,
376:I’ve survived, but barely—I’ve been clinging to this world like the discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. ~ Haruki Murakami,
377:To those in the executive branch who say ‘just trust us’ when it comes to secret and warrantless surveillance of domestic communications, I say, ‘Remember your history.’ ~ Eric Holder,
378:Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone, A Tale of Two Titties... ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
379:I am on the highest branch.
We are written in paint.
I believe in signs.
The glow of Ultraviolet.
A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private. ~ Jennifer Niven,
380:I study every quivering branch, every imposing soldier, every window I can count. My eyes are two professional pickpockets, stealing everything to store away in my mind. ~ Tahereh Mafi,
381:It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming. ~ Bruce Lee,
382:It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and 'Ex-Girlfriends' is a good way to show another side of me. ~ Jennifer Carpenter,
383:Sometimes I doubted the reliability of my head. Maybe she was an image leftover from my life before Branch. A girl I saw in a movie. A character I read about in a book. ~ Jennifer Rush,
384:Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it. ~ Marcus Aurelius,
385:...He gave such a vulnerable impression. He resembled the leaf that a little boy strikes down from its branch with a stick, because its singularity makes it conspicuous. ~ Robert Walser,
386:I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and ultimately an independent prosecutor working in the Executive Branch. ~ Bob Woodward,
387:I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch. ~ P L Travers,
388:The Supreme Court must serve as an independent check on abuses by the executive branch and the protector of our liberties, not a cheerleader for an imperial presidency. ~ Edward Kennedy,
389:As we, the branch, drink in the sweet sap of the Vine – that nectar being Holy Spirit – fruit just happens. Your only job is a passive one – abide. Rest in faith and love. ~ John Crowder,
390:I am a particle physicist, which is the nearest branch to nuclear physics. So in that sense I was the sort of right connection with the subject of nuclear energy and so on. ~ Abdus Salam,
391:I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain. ~ Taylor Branch,
392:One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election. ~ Barack Obama,
393:What are you grinning for?' he asked the figure on the next branch.
I CAN'T HELP IT, said Death. NOW WOULD YOU BE SO KIND AS TO LET GO? I CAN'T HANG AROUND ALL DAY. ~ Terry Pratchett,
394:A branch detached from the contiguous branch must needs be detached from the whole tree: even so man separated even from a single man is detached from the whole society. ~ Marcus Aurelius,
395:As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development. ~ David Hilbert,
396:I hope to be acting until I'm playing the role of Grandma, and I'd like to branch out in film - producing, directing, all of it. I'll sleep when no one wants to hire me! ~ America Ferrera,
397:I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. ~ Branch Warren,
398:Quite often there's a great deal of disagreement within the executive branch about what we should do. Some cases are pretty straightforward, but a lot of them aren't. ~ Donald Verrilli Jr,
399:That which interest me above all else,' he wrote,'is the caligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of the grass. ~ Colm T ib n,
400:Brother Horse spread five fingers in the wind. "'Thus the tree grows,'" he quoted, "'and each new branch, as a new tree. Nothing is unchanging, least of all the ways of people. ~ Greg Keyes,
401:In the film industry, especially in the TV branch, there is a widespread contempt for the viewing public, which explains why the great majority of films are boring and stupid. ~ Dean Koontz,
402:Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down. ~ Taylor Branch,
403:Celeste met me halfway, swinging her branch with each step. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. Just not feeling well, I guess.”
“Do. Not. Puke,” she ordered. “Especially not on me. ~ Kiera Cass,
404:This passion for pictures gave him a whole new way of looking at the world. He began to pay constant attention to the curve of a branch or the swell of a woman's cheek. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa,
405:Although in principle we know the equations that govern the whole of biology, we have not been able to reduce the study of human behavior to a branch of applied mathematics. ~ Stephen Hawking,
406:My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
407:New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed. ~ J D Hayworth,
408:Smallness can make you feel extra porous. Extra ambitious. Like a small dog carrying an enormous branch clenched in its teeth, as if intimating to the world: Okay. Where to? ~ Durga Chew Bose,
409:The do-not-call registry is still being challenged in court. Yet, the conclusions of the American people, the legislative branch, and the executive branch are beyond question. ~ George W Bush,
410:For this purpose was I born, let all virtuous people understand. I was born to advance righteousness, to emancipate the good, and to destroy all evil-doers root and branch. ~ Guru Gobind Singh,
411:The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens. ~ Susan Branch,
412:What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been. ~ Harrison Ford,
413:A soul filled with large thoughts of the Vine will be a strong branch, and will abide confidently in Him. Be much occupied with Jesus, and believe much in Him, as the True Vine. ~ Andrew Murray,
414:Here is a Mind Map that I made of the book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. You will notice that each main branch shows a concept that we remembered on The Car List. ~ Kevin Horsley,
415:If you run unit tests and a continuous integration system on your code’s mainline, then you must also arrange to run these on the release branch, for as long as the branch is alive. ~ Anonymous,
416:It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch. ~ Timothy J Keller,
417:There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States. ~ Taylor Branch,
418:We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. ~ Woodrow Wilson,
419:And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world. ~ Theodore Roethke,
420:does no good to nail an unattached branch to the vine; there is no life-giving connection. But those branches that are an integral part of the vine share in the life of the vine. ~ Jerry Bridges,
421:I stopped. He looked at the distance between us and lifted his brows.
“This seems close enough,” I said. “For safety’s sake.”
“Safe from the branch breaking? Or from me? ~ Kelley Armstrong,
422:[Nicolas Maduro] completely controls the judicial branch, controls the courts, has denied their basic rights and the responsibility that the legislative branch has in that country. ~ Marco Rubio,
423:I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own. ~ Branch Rickey,
424:"In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!!" ~ Alan Watts,
425:[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. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
426:There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream." ~ Taylor Branch,
427:When I tried to branch out into comedy, I didn't do very well at it, so I went back to doing what I do naturally well, or what the audience expects from me - action pictures. ~ Sylvester Stallone,
428:A weird sequence of weather events had left a thin skin of ice around every tree and branch and twig. Each time the wind blew, a splintery groan issued from all directions at once. ~ Jennifer Egan,
429:First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf. ~ Martin Luther,
430:I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations . ~ Edmund Burke,
431:One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off. ~ William Irwin Thompson,
432:The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology. ~ Vilayanur S Ramachandran,
433:Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love ~ Leonard Cohen,
434:Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,
435:There's a branch of math called the foundations of math. It's kind of like quantum mechanics. It's about how this very complex theory of math can be built up from very basic parts. ~ Tristan Perich,
436:Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on. ~ Asger Jorn,
437:I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction. ~ Steven Moffat,
438:You sure? No one will know we’re down there.’ ‘Makes no difference. The Environment office was closed when we left, and I never called ahead to the Porjus branch. It’ll be fine though. ~ Adam Nevill,
439:Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power. ~ James Madison,
440:The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences. ~ Daniel Dennett,
441:There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit. ~ Victor Hugo,
442:Songs are all but a branch of the yearning for union; branch and root are never comparable.

Close your lips, and open the window of the heart; by that way be conversant with the spirits. ~ Rumi,
443:The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit. ~ Thomas Pynchon,
444:If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
445:I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
446: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. ~ Joseph Morgan,
447:The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before. ~ Freeman Dyson,
448:At the start of 1799, both of the banks in New York City happened to be the brainchildren of Alexander Hamilton: the Bank of New York and the local branch of the Bank of the United States. ~ Ron Chernow,
449:Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow. ~ Lawrence Durrell,
450:It was true. There really was no limit to the ways in which you could say the wrong thing to your children. You offered an olive branch and it was the wrong olive branch at the wrong time. ~ Mark Haddon,
451:The year 2020 will mark the end of the U.S. presidency and the executive branch of the government. Let’s just say the American public will finally be fed up by then and leave it at that. ~ Sylvia Browne,
452:He took my hand, made me stand on the branch and asked, "What can you see from here?"
"Nothing" I said,
"Know what I can see? From this distance everything is so bloody perfect". ~ Melina Marchetta,
453:A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind.
It was now deep autumn in the mountains. ~ Aspen Matis,
454:We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics. ~ J Willard Gibbs,
455:In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble. ~ Rem Koolhaas,
456:It was, perhaps, the amiable character of this man that inclined me more to that branch of natural philosophy which he professed, than an intrinsic love for the science itself. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
457:The present supply of realism is nothing but the publisher's answer to a cheap and fickle demand...if realism be a form of art, the newspaper is a permanent contribution to literature. ~ James Branch Cabell,
458:No doubt Noah offered his wife that olive branch. Forty days in a boat with those animals to clean up after? A peace offering likely all that stood between their marriage and bloody murder. ~ Gregory Maguire,
459:The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning. ~ Thomas B Macaulay,
460:The Texans were head-butting the Coloradoans. The Missouri branch was arguing with Illinois. The chances were pretty good the whole army would end up fighting each other rather than the enemy. ~ Rick Riordan,
461:Because the bag is full of colours - starbursts and wheels and whorls of dazzling brightness that are as fine and complex in their structures as the branch is, only much more symmetrical. Flowers. ~ M R Carey,
462:I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more. ~ Anonymous,
463:My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot. ~ Jennifer Gilmore,
464:No vices?’
‘No vices.’
‘Except men,’ Simon says.
A tree branch waves in front of the living room window, blocking the sun, and Robert’s face goes out like a lamp. ‘That’s not a vice. ~ Chloe Benjamin,
465:The threat to change Senate rules is a raw abuse of power and will destroy the very checks and balances our founding fathers put in place to prevent absolute power by any one branch of government. ~ Harry Reid,
466:Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. ~ Richard M Nixon,
467:A Deity believed, is joy begun;  A Deity adored, is joy advanced;  A Deity beloved, is joy matured.  Each branch of piety delight inspires. ~ Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 720,
468:Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love ~ Leonard Cohen,
469:Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
470:If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,
471:I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress. ~ Bill Gates,
472:Taking away men's weapons will be not bring peace. They'll fight with sticks and stones, and tooth and nail. Mapidéré's is a peace supported only by fear, as secure as a nest built on a rotten branch. ~ Ken Liu,
473:He got down easily by dropping uncontrollably from branch to branch until he landed on his head in a pile of pine needles, where he lay gasping for breath and wishing he'd been a better person. ~ Terry Pratchett,
474:If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
475:I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. ~ Anonymous,
476:Let that be as it will, thus much is certain, that, however spiritual intrigues begin, they generally conclude like all others; they may branch upward toward heaven, but the root is in the earth. ~ Jonathan Swift,
477:Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come! ~ Susan Branch,
478:His cumbersome mind clung to an obscure ideal, shared by many people of limited intellect and venerated with unthinking respect: to let a branch sprout from the main trunk, an extension of himself. ~ Hermann Hesse,
479:In the department of--but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service. ~ Nikolai Gogol,
480:Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live. ~ Robert Murray M Cheyne,
481:Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin. ~ Marlen Haushofer,
482:That's the fundamental question. Do we have a check and balance system? Do we have three equal branches or do we have one supreme branch, not just the Supreme Court? That's the fundamental question. ~ Mike Huckabee,
483:The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language. ~ J Robert Oppenheimer,
484:What awaited them there could only be guessed at, but for Ariane it was probably going to be a substantial reward, a medal, and a promotion to some high rank in Red’s military intelligence branch. ~ Neal Stephenson,
485:While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue. ~ Harriet Miers,
486:but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river. ~ Mitch Albom,
487:Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run. ~ Branch Rickey,
488:About the only valid definition (of science fiction) that I’m willing to accept is this: all of modern, mainstream, and realistic fiction is simply a branch, a category, or a subset of science fiction. ~ Mike Resnick,
489:In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science. ~ Simon Greenleaf,
490:Rauschenbusch rejected the usual religious emphasis on matters of piety, metaphysics, and the supernatural, interpreting Christianity instead as a spirit of brotherhood made manifest in social ethics. ~ Taylor Branch,
491:The air was alive with yellow wasps. We must have stepped on a wasps' nest in a rotten branch as we walked. And while I was running up the hill, my dad stayed and got stung, to give me time to run away. ~ Neil Gaiman,
492:The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak ~ Leila Aboulela,
493:To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors. ~ George Gaylord Simpson,
494:Finally, the Framers stressed that the impeachment remedy was a vital congressional check on the executive branch as a whole, not just on the president’s personal compliance with constitutional norms. ~ Andrew McCarthy,
495:Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree ~ Robert Sobukwe,
496:Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. ~ Aleister Crowley,
497:She looked resentfully at Mr. Cann. It would, she was sure, have been difficult enough to persuade him, in spite of his protestations, to leave the house alive. Dead, he was going to be far more trouble. ~ Pamela Branch,
498:Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education. ~ Thomas Bulfinch,
499:What broke her in the end was to see that Dari, moving quietly in the snow, was tracing his flower neatly with a thin branch in the growing dark while tears were pouring down his face without surcease. ~ Guy Gavriel Kay,
500:. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments. ~ Alexander Hamilton,
501:The renaissance of Christian philosophy has been accompanied by a resurgence of interest in natural theology, that branch of theology that seeks to prove God's existence apart from divine revelation. ~ William Lane Craig,
502:Moral philosophy is very largely a branch of fiction. Despite this, a philosopher has yet to write a great novel. The fact should not be surprising. In philosophy the truth about human life is of no interest ~ John N Gray,
503:Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment. ~ Joan Larkin,
504:There was no sound but the murmur of nasty little stinging insects, the occasional crack of a falling branch, and the whispering of the trees discussing religion and the trouble with squirrels. Rincewind ~ Terry Pratchett,
505:The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts. ~ William Blackstone,
506:The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and our comfort zones and our families. So there was a solidarity in the military, a brotherhood. ~ Jon Huertas,
507:We met in an airport in Las Vegas, Harrison Ford and I, and he said, "I just finished a movie called 42. I play Branch Rickey. There's this kid in it playing Jackie Robinson. I think it's a pretty good movie." ~ Larry King,
508:I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas. ~ Jennifer Carpenter,
509:Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. ~ Ferdinand de Saussure,
510:Spend your brief moment according to nature's law, and serenely greet the journey's end as an olive falls when it is ripe, blessing the branch that bare it, and giving thanks to the tree that gave it life. ~ Marcus Aurelius,
511:The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man. ~ Starhawk,
512: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. ~ John Crowley,
513: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. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
514:I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway. ~ Naturi Naughton,
515:For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems. ~ Sandra Day O Connor,
516:Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind. ~ John Stuart Mill,
517:This, Tolstoy says, is our human predicament: we're the man clutching the branch. Death awaits us. There is no escape. And so we distract ourselves by licking whatever drops of honey come within our reach. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides,
518:We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. ~ Vladimir Putin,
519:Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer. ~ Branch Rickey,
520:Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass. ~ John F Kennedy,
521:The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog. ~ Christopher Hitchens,
522:I shaved my hairline back and dyed my hair and wore a little powder, a little paint, a fat suit, and I changed my voice, but the emotions were consistent with what the point of the scene [with Branch Rickey] was. ~ Harrison Ford,
523:So nice to see you, human,” a voice purred from an overhead branch. Grimalkin sniffed, looking from me to Keirran, and smiled. “How amusing that you are both here. The queen is not at all happy with either of you. ~ Julie Kagawa,
524:I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them. ~ George W Bush,
525:If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy. ~ Neal Stephenson,
526:It’s always been you, Troy. Always.” Always is such a bullshit word, a lie, a farce, a road that promises to go on forever. But roads, like life, branch off, and merge and meander. And they both always, always end. ~ Leylah Attar,
527:Presidents Lincoln, Jefferson, Jackson, presidents have understood that the Supreme Court cannot make a law. They cannot make it. The legislature has to make it, the executive branch has to sign it and enforce it. ~ Mike Huckabee,
528:She didn’t give her girlish attire a second thought as she jumped for the first branch and pulled herself off the ground. It was funny how adrenaline helped you do the unthinkable when fear ran through your blood. ~ Tory Richards,
529:What about a judicial branch?” “No lawyers, Ben. We don’t have time for that nonsense either. The justice system we have in place is fair. We’re not going to start hanging people, if that’s what you’re worried about. ~ John Lyman,
530:A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge - Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas ~ Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud,
531:I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing. ~ Ed Speleers,
532:I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out of Harlem. I had read every book in two libraries and had a card for the Forty-Second Street branch. ~ James A Baldwin,
533:Painting is a science, and should be pursued as an inquiry into the laws of nature. Why, then, may not landscape painting be considered as a branch of natural philosophy, of which pictures are but the experiments? ~ John Constable,
534:That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience. ~ Adam Smith,
535:Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ~ Anthony Burgess,
536:evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe. ~ Dan Simmons,
537:From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well... ~ Michel de Montaigne,
538:In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the powers are divided on purpose. And that was - that - so that no one branch could run off. ~ Philip M Breedlove,
539:Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. ~ Seneca the Younger,
540:With great care the two creatures edged to the very tip. From there they looked out at the cloudless sky.
"The end of the branch," said Avon, mostly to himself.
"The beginning of the sky," said Edward, mostly to HIMself. ~ Avi,
541:I’m at sea, lieutenant … We probably both are. Except that you, you fight the waves, you mean to go in a definite direction, whereas I let myself drift with the current, clutching here and there on a passing branch. ~ Georges Simenon,
542:A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch. ~ John Adams,
543:Engine loves his branch line. One day, when he stopped at a small station, some children looked sad. “They’ve closed our playground and our favorite sand pit.” “Teacher says the sand is soiled and too dirty to play in. ~ Wilbert Awdry,
544:I feel fortunate that, by the age of 40, I had crammed in an entire political career.I had been in the Cabinet and been leader of the party, so now I can branch out into other things... it is a very liberating feeling. ~ William Hague,
545:it’s never just one moment. It’s a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there’s a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don’t. ~ Nicola Yoon,
546:[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall of choice dismiss the olive branch and unfurl the banners of War. ~ Alexander Hamilton,
547:We send electric currents down orderly runs of circuits and switches, but the shape that electricity wants to take is of a living thing, a fern, a bare branch. The strike point in the center, the power seeking outward. ~ Naomi Alderman,
548:Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts. ~ Narendra Modi,
549:Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality. ~ Bill Gates,
550:But it's never just one moment. It's a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there's a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don't. ~ Nicola Yoon,
551:But it’s never just one moment. It’s a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there’s a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don’t. ~ Nicola Yoon,
552:In an era where the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture and is spying on American citizens, I find Judge [Samuel] Alito's support for an all-powerful executive branch to be genuinely troubling. ~ Samuel Alito,
553:It (a baseball box score) doesn't tell how big you are, what church you attend, what color you are, or how your father voted in the last election. It just tells what kind of baseball player you were on that particular day. ~ Branch Rickey,
554:To curb further abuse, Hamilton recommended a Supreme Court that would consist of twelve judges holding lifetime offices on good behavior. In this manner, each branch would maintain a salutary distance from popular passions. ~ Ron Chernow,
555:At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. ~ C S Lewis,
556:I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy. ~ Deb Caletti,
557:I think branching out is cool, but I think that you have to branch out in a way that makes some sort of organic sense. I would love to put out a rock record eventually, but it would have to somehow philosophically make sense for me. ~ El P,
558:Hamilton and Madison were again pitted in a fundamental contest over whether the executive or legislative branch would run American foreign policy. Hamilton was relieved when Washington denied Congress the treaty instructions. ~ Ron Chernow,
559:The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world. ~ John Burroughs,
560:The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing. ~ James R Newman,
561:We’d been living at Grandpa’s for a little more than a year when Mrs. Crandel died. And the next day Kate Helen Branch had a baby. Uncle Burley said that was just the way things were. They put one in and pull another one out. ~ Wendell Berry,
562:You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system. ~ Mike Huckabee,
563:I do think it's true that a huge amount of the oversight that the White House engages in with respect to the Executive Branch is out of fear that somebody's going to do something crazy and drive the president off a cliff. ~ Donald Verrilli Jr,
564:It is a primary text of the Vaishnava branch of Hinduism, and one of the Cnanonical puranas of the Visnhu Category. Among the portions of interest are a cycle of legends of the boyhood deeds of Krishna and Rama. ~ Sacred Texts, in "Hinduism".,
565:Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is. ~ Stanley B Prusiner,
566:To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh. ~ Kathleen Parker,
567:We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
568:You have people talk about the media as a coequal branch when talking about Republicans. "You know, Republicans have to overcome the media, and then the Democrats." Wait a minute. Why should anybody have to overcome the media? ~ Rush Limbaugh,
569:There are sayings and mantras that sometimes occur in filmmaking discussions, and one of them is that sometimes filmmaking is an olive branch or a reason or an excuse to be able to reach out and create an encounter with someone. ~ Debra Granik,
570:The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree. ~ Isaac Newton,
571:Thus they shall not miss this particular branch of the many branches of the Law and will have no need to roam and ramble about in other books in search of information on matters set forth in this treatise. ~ Maimonides, Mishneh Torah (c. 1180),
572:Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk—as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed. ~ Rudyard Kipling,
573:Palliative care, the branch of medicine that focuses on symptom relief and comfort, had been perceived as the antimatter of cancer therapy, the negative to its positive, an admission of failure to its rhetoric of success. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee,
574:It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the executive branch. The Supreme Court has even ruled that I am the executive branchhead, heart, and hand. ~ Gerald R Ford,
575:A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness. ~ Umberto Eco,
576:[Prince Stefan’s] family was of Eastern European descent, with some real royalty thrown in via a connection to Vlad the Impaler—who hung from a branch that Ian wouldn’t kept secret had the family tree been growing in his yard. ~ Suzanne Brockmann,
577:She went about her work.

By sundown she owned a restaurant and a flophouse, the Fiat Bank branch by the dock was on fire, and two pirate captains were dueling for her hand as she sold prostitutes in lots of half a hundred. ~ Seth Dickinson,
578:We need Jesus like we need oxygen. Like we need water. Like the branch needs the vine. Jesus is not merely a figure for devotions. He is the missing essence of your existence. Whether we know it or not, we are desperate for Jesus. ~ John Eldredge,
579:The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from our midst, root and branch, this physical element and return to our laboratories. ~ Henry Edward Armstrong,
580:You live
under the Sign
of the Bear, who flounders through chaos
in his starry blubber:
poor fool,
poor forked branch
of applewood, you will feel all your bones break
over the holy waters you will never drink. ~ Galway Kinnell,
581:A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures? ~ Ivan Turgenev,
582:Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of the plant, each member of the animal, each drop of its humors, is also such a garden or such a pond. ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,
583:I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because youre literally not dependent on anybody. ~ Sam Shepard,
584:I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey lookalike than a Harrison Ford lookalike. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in a movie. ~ Harrison Ford,
585:I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean. ~ Branch Rickey,
586:I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer. ~ A A Milne,
587:On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but to lose himself in some branch of science or literature completely irrelevant to his assignment. ~ Charles Augustin de Coulomb,
588:The wind lifts the whole branch of the poplar
carries it up and out and holds it there
while each leaf is the whole tree reaching
from its roots in the dark earth out through all
its rings of memory to where it has never been ~ W S Merwin,
589:Nothing is more fortifying than learning that you have a real reader, a reader who truly responds both accurately and actively. It gives you courage, and you feel, I can crawl out on the branch a little further. It’s going to hold. ~ Deborah Eisenberg,
590:He’d fill every moment with the seasons he’d found in his heart: hopes like birds on a spring branch; happiness like a warm summer sun; magic like the rising mists of autumn. And best of all, love; love enough for a thousand Christmases. ~ Clive Barker,
591:Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty. There is only one way to deal with them: Cut them out, to the very core, just as cancers. Exterminate them root and branch. Annihilate them, or they will us! ~ Anton Szandor LaVey,
592:All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair. ~ Lyndon B Johnson,
593:I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean? ~ Branch Rickey,
594:That's what I would like to do until the end of time, to go on scribbling my articles on the third floor of the Sloan Building, in between playing tennis and drinking coffee at my other study in the Concord Avenue branch of Burger King. ~ Paul Samuelson,
595:Winter Scene
There is now not a single
leaf on the cherry tree:
except when the jay
plummets in, lights, and,
in pure clarity, squalls:
then every branch
quivers and
breaks out in blue leaves.
~ Archie Randolph Ammons,
596:Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics. ~ John Maynard Keynes,
597:It was still very wet under the trees. A careless tug at a branch might flip cold rainbow-edged drops down your back. And the sky was gray as concrete. But they enjoyed the silence, the soft sucking ground matted with last year's needles. ~ Jean Thompson,
598:Many a Hitler decision – decisions that infuriated his generals by their seeming lack of logic at the time – can probably be explained by the work of Göring's Forschungsamt, Ribbentrop's ministry and the naval staff's cryptanalysis branch. ~ David Irving,
599: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 ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa,
600:People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein,
601:Since statism advances by concentrating governmental power, Democrats—regardless of what governmental branch they happen to inhabit—rally to whatever branch holds the greatest transformative potential. Right now, that is the presidency. ~ Andrew McCarthy,
602:If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree. ~ Peter Watts,
603:I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people. ~ Lisa Yuskavage,
604:It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ~ Sam Brownback,
605:Lumen. There was Lumen, and there was the places people did not go. And Lumen would go to those places. She would leap over denies and crawl through mud. She would climb up on rooftops and call crazy with every little branch of her lungs. ~ Joshua Gaylord,
606:The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office. ~ Andrew Bacevich,
607:As constitutional scholar Martin Redish put it, “If the president can immunize his agents in this manner, the courts will effectively lose any meaningful authority to protect constitutional rights against invasion by the executive branch. ~ Steven Levitsky,
608:Goodlife was originally a ski management/athlete management company. I have a couple friends who are sponsored for skiing and my manager linked up with their manager. We worked out a deal, because they wanted to branch out into music and culture. ~ SonReal,
609:Hamilton’s first act in Philadelphia paid homage to Franklin. The sage had opposed salaries for executive-branch officers, hoping such a measure would produce civic-minded leaders, not government officials feeding at the public trough. Others ~ Ron Chernow,
610:Human nature was such that individuals could respond to reason, to the call of justice, and even to the love perfection of the religious spirit, but nations, corporations, labor unions, and other large social groups would always be selfish. ~ Taylor Branch,
611:Myth tells us that the full gamut of feeling is to be experienced. Wildness is the capacity to go into joy, sorrow, and anger fully and stay there for as long as needed, regardless of what anyone else thinks. ~ Martin Shaw, A Branch From the Lightning Tree,
612:The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter. ~ Benjamin Disraeli,
613:The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax laws are created by: Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that's where we must focus our efforts. ~ Dave Barry,
614:The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning. ~ Dimebag Darrell,
615:And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,
616:For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant. ~ Martin Luther,
617:However strong the branch becomes, however far away it reaches round the home, out of sight of the vine, all its beauty and all its fruitfulness ever depend upon that one point of contact where it grows out of the vine. So be it with us too. ~ Andrew Murray,
618:I longed to be a flowering branch,
the sea in its rocking, an unguessed world.

Even now it seems so much as if the body was only
the desire of the planet,
as if it could turn itself into the universe
both together, the same, ~ Linda Hogan,
619:Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga. I would be delighted to be your springboard, but try to read as much as you can in order to branch out! ~ Hiromu Arakawa,
620:It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost. ~ Anthony Kiedis,
621:It was a game she sometimes played, ever since she learned about the theory of infinite parallels, the idea that a person's path through life wasn't really a line, but a tree, every decision a divergent branch, resulting in a divergent you. ~ Victoria Schwab,
622:One big-brained branch of these mammals, that which we call primates, evolved a genus and species (Homo sapiens) with sufficient intelligence to invent methods and tools of science—and to deduce the origin and evolution of the universe. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
623:The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place. ~ Khalil Gibran,
624:Western Red Cedar bark and cones are distinct. The foliage is not coniferous... the tree has flat intricate fronds that branch out like lace. It droops down, hanging fingers from each branch. In certain lights, it looks like a tree made of ferns. ~ Ned Hayes,
625:You’ll freeze out here,” he said. What did he know? I was already a sheet of ice, a frozen branch, a twig. I could freeze in my own house, if I wanted to. The man’s eyes darted down the road.
I was an icy slip of nothing. I was invincible. ~ Monica Drake,
626:First of all, a man, whether seeking achievement on the athletic field or in business, must want to win. He must feel that the thing he is doing is worthwhile; so worthwhile that he is willing to pay the price of success to attain distinction. ~ Branch Rickey,
627:My father had a very unusual psychic ability, he could detect water. It's called divining. He would use a Y-shaped U-branch, and he could find water with that, which is a very impressive skill in a country where it rains 365 days of the year. ~ Craig Ferguson,
628:Senator George McGovern announced the publication of the first Dietary Goals for the United States. The document was “the first comprehensive statement by any branch of the Federal Government on risk factors in the American diet,” said McGovern. ~ Gary Taubes,
629: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. ~ Andre Weil,
630:Annabelle smiled, standing on her toes to tie a little cloth doll on the highest branch she could reach. Dressed in winter white, with her honey-colored hair drawn up in curls and her cheeks pink from exertion, she looked like a Christmas angel. ~ Lisa Kleypas,
631:Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type. ~ P J O Rourke,
632:There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why, ninety-five percent of the information that reaches you has already been preselected and paid for. ~ Haruki Murakami,
633:They waited for the clouds to disappear, and when they did, they could see the rest of the forest.
"It wouldn't stop growing, " she explained.
"But neither would this." The young man looked at the branch that held his hand. He had a point. ~ Markus Zusak,
634:Her thoughts rambled, but she wasn’t daydreaming. Her senses were sharp. She caught the fall of every leaf in the garden, the rustle of every branch. And so she was astonished when a man stepped out of the darkness and grabbed her from behind. ~ Kristin Cashore,
635:Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent—all depending on who wields it and how. Information is so powerful that the assumption of information, even if the information does not actually exist, can have a sobering effect. ~ Steven D Levitt,
636:Like the people that in the 60s or 70s claimed the "end of painting" - all they did was open up a whole new branch for painting. Happily, it doesn't work. It's not a reason for art. Closing something out is not a reason for something to exist. ~ Lawrence Weiner,
637:Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture. ~ Russell Banks,
638:Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
639:The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive. ~ Auguste Comte,
640:Don't panic, but we've got an audience." Clary turned her head. Perched on a nearby tree branch was Hugo, watching them beadily from bright black eyes. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing. ~ Cassandra Clare,
641:In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. ~ John Ruskin,
642:I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform. ~ Swami Vivekananda,
643:where we came in. And this is that branch we ran into —see, like a Y? So this must be where we are now, which puts the Sun Chamber here.” Benjamin raised his eyebrows and repeated, “Must be where we are?” “Is,” Cameron asserted. “This is where we are. ~ Sean Platt,
644:Oh, we’re not a branch of the government, we’re just an agency, and there are at least three agencies dedicated to dealing with things that most people don’t believe exist. It’s a natural result of living in a world with aspirations of rationality. ~ Seanan McGuire,
645:Akela, the grim old wolf who had never asked for mercy in his life, gave one piteous look at Mowgli as the boy stood all naked, his long black hair tossing over his shoulders in the light of the blazing branch that made the shadows jump and quiver. ~ Rudyard Kipling,
646:A story with a single ending seems to us a bare and diminished thing, like a tree with a single branch; and each ending seems to us an expression of something that is buried deep within the tale and can be brought to light in that way and no other. ~ Steven Millhauser,
647:While Papa talked about his day in court, I relived my fight with Edward. What a lousy, stinking, ungrateful coward he was. Hateful. Underhanded. Sly and dishonest. A tattle-tale. What branch of the family tree had produced a rotten apple like him? ~ Mary Downing Hahn,
648:If the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of philosophy - a style that has cut philosophy off, not only from the humanities but from every other branch of inquiry and culture. ~ Philip Kitcher,
649:These boys both fell out of the ugly tree at a young age, hitting every damned branch on the way down. Then their mommas whupped them with an ugly stick and fed them ugly soup every day of their lives. They were Uh-glee, with a couple of capital double-ugs. ~ Glen Cook,
650:Don't panic, but we've got an audience."
Clary turned her head. Perched on a nearby tree branch was Hugo, watching them beadily from bright black eyes. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That
was disappointing. ~ Cassandra Clare,
651:In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the operations of matter and the abstract mental processes of the most abstract branch of mathematical science. ~ Ada Lovelace,
652:Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences. ~ Blaise Pascal,
653:The wind is blowing hard around me, the sound is rising in my chest again, and I feel I can fly.And then the branch has shifted under my feet, the deep furrows of the bark have left my back, and I have no time to spread my arms. I am not flying. I am falling. ~ Ned Hayes,
654:Today the eyes of all people are truly upon us—and our governments, in every branch, at every level, national, state and local, must be as a city upon a hill—constructed and inhabited by men aware of their great trust and their great responsibilities. ~ Stephen R Prothero,
655:memorial branch had fallen on its side, but it was still visible, poking up out of the water below the Highledge. Brackenfur and Dustpelt waded over to it and dragged it back to the bushes where the other cats waited. “It’s not floating very well,” Brackenfur ~ Erin Hunter,
656:So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through. Colour gives way to form: every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky. New vistas, obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up. ~ Flora Thompson,
657:Barn swallows, like phoebes, are worth it. Watch swallows skim low over the lawn in the sidelight of a summer evening; watch a phoebe whirl out to snap up a passing crane fly, then fetch up on a dead branch, and then imagine the scene without their spark. ~ Julie Zickefoose,
658:One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze. ~ David Ignatow,
659:We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement and every action must proceed from the interests of the whole Party; it is absolutely impermissible to violate this principle. ~ Mao Zedong,
660:Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence. ~ Robert Henri,
661:The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. ~ Adam Smith,
662:In a pine tree,
A few yards away from my window sill,
A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and down,
On a branch.
I laugh, as I see him abandon himself
To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do
That the branch will not break. ~ James Wright,
663:When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch. ~ David Gregory,
664:Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness. ~ James Branch Cabell,
665:He scolded his listeners for being eager to sell off their few productive assets in exchange for articles of prestige. “You say you want a definition of perpetual motion?” he asked. “Give the average Negro a Cadillac and tell him to park it on some land he owns. ~ Taylor Branch,
666:Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles. ~ Dorothy L Sayers,
667:FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario. ~ Gary Goodyear,
668:As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. ~ Jim Gaffigan,
669:I don't believe for one moment that I killed him [...] But if I didn't, somebody else did. I must appoint myself Investigator. I must catch this malefactor, this pig. And if at any time it looks as if I am going to catch myself, I can always accept my resignation. ~ Pamela Branch,
670:I don't think my parents ever knew what they did for us. They were to busy doing what needed to be done. As far as we as she was concerned, we were rich as Rockefeller; I never heard her wish for more. She made us feel like we had everything, and we though so, too. ~ Susan Branch,
671:Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates. ~ Sigmund Freud,
672:She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! ~ Zora Neale Hurston,
673:The thing I'd want people to say about me is that, in some way, I helped bring the Senate and the Congress back to what it used to be, the people's branch of government, doing things that made a difference in people's lives. I have devoted my life to government. ~ Charles Schumer,
674:Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ. ~ Charles Chiniquy,
675:And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again. ~ Taylor Branch,
676:Oh, the odious wench. How I wish I were rid of her. I have always loathed women, from clew to earring; hook, line and sinker; root and branch. I always said this would happen, you remember; I was against it from the start. Damn it for a flibbertigibbet, the hussy. ~ Patrick O Brian,
677:Once he paused near a small stream to watch a dipper bob up and down on a rock. He saw a school of trout lurking in a shady place where a branch hung low on the water. No amount of seeing ever made nature old to him, and he was conscious of every movement and sound. ~ Louis L Amour,
678:The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux,
679:[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
680:HOLLY KING is a symbol of the waning forces of Nature... The Holly King is depicted as an old man in winter garb. His head bears a wreath of holly and he often carries a staff that is typically a holly branch. Some Santa Claus figures are actually Holly King figures. ~ Raven Grimassi,
681:I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. ~ Branch Rickey,
682:The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion. ~ Wesley Clark,
683:Two separate branches had grown out of two different trees that had been growing side by side, and the branches had overlapped, wrapping around the other, the smaller branches tangling and intertwining. The branch from one tree had been damaged and was split at its base. ~ Amy Harmon,
684:Every woman is wired differently. Some women's nerves branch more in the vagina; other women's nerves branch more in the clitoris. Some branch a great deal in the perineum, or at the mouth of the cervix. That accounts for some of the differences in female sexual response. ~ Naomi Wolf,
685:September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit. ~ Catherynne M Valente,
686:You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. ~ Rosalynn Carter,
687:The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design itself or a branch of that art. ~ Michelangelo,
688:I am told that Meljanz also had adorned himself richly for battle. His courage too was high, and he rode a handsome Castilian which Meljacanz had won from Keie when he flung him so high with his thrust that Keie was caught on the branch of a tree and hung there. ~ Wolfram von Eschenbach,
689:In his essays on the need for executive-branch vigor, Hamilton continually invoked the king of England as an example of what should be avoided, especially the monarch’s lack of accountability. Every president “ought to be personally responsible for his behaviour in office. ~ Ron Chernow,
690:Love doesn’t die all at once, or in big steps, he thought.  It dies in tiny pieces, with daily decisions that nip off bits of it like the edges of a living branch until you’ve cut away to the heart of the trunk and then that, too, is gone and there’s nothing left. ~ Michaelbrent Collings,
691:she had stared through the window at a little old lady in the sun, grubby, light and quick – a branch quivering in the breeze. A dry branch where there was so much femininity, Joana had thought, that the poor dear could have a child if life hadn’t dried up in her body ~ Clarice Lispector,
692:Spent most of the summer looking for shade. Driving around. Shade. Please? Driving in malls. I'll park a mile away I don't care. I'm just looking for a tree branch, anything. Long weed. Big leaf, get the front corner panel under it. Oh precious shade, I have it - you don't! ~ David Spade,
693:The --no-ff flag causes the merge to always create a new commit object, even if the merge could be performed with a fast-forward. This avoids losing information about the historical existence of a feature branch and groups together all commits that together added the feature. ~ Anonymous,
694: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. ~ John Adams,
695:There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! ~ Diane von Furstenberg,
696:When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. ~ Marc Chagall,
697:there is a branch of science called geobotany. It is a way of looking for minerals by knowing that certain plants will only grow in their presence or absence, and sometimes by knowing that the plants themselves concentrate particular minerals in their leaves and stems. ~ Charles Sheffield,
698:There is enough mystery in the facts as we know them, enough of conspiracy, coincidence, loose ends, dead ends, multiple interpretations. There is no need […] to invent the grand and masterful scheme, the plot that reaches flawlessly in a dozen directions. - Agent Branch (58) ~ Don DeLillo,
699:I arrived at the Swindon branch of TJ-Maxx at a little after two. I knew as well as anyone that the store hadn’t been deliberately set up as a bargain store for end-of-line designer garments, but rather as a high-security facility for the imprisonment of dangerous criminals. ~ Jasper Fforde,
700:When I sat down with the creators of the show [Longmire], back when we were first starting to do the pilot, Branch was not that interesting on the page. What really sold me on the show and the character was their vision for him. It took the whole first season to flesh him out. ~ Bailey Chase,
701:I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing?"

"Motive - Don't know."

"What do you mean Don't know? I tell you I hadn't got one. Put None."

"You must have one. If you kill people without one, you're mad. ~ Pamela Branch,
702:It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog. ~ Sherwood Anderson,
703:Now, but these three," cried Jurgen, "are the glory of Philistia: and of all that Philistia has produced, it is these three alone, whom living ye made least of, that today are honored wherever art is honored, and where nobody bothers one way or the other about Philistia. ~ James Branch Cabell,
704:If a branch is laden with fruit, it pulls the branch down, whereas a branch that bears no fruit holds its head up high, like a poplar tree.

The Prophet was extremely humble, because the fruits of this world and the next were gathered upon him. He was thus the most humble of men. ~ Rumi,
705:I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States. ~ Bashar al Assad,
706:Judicial review involves a court overturning an act of Congress or of the executive branch on the grounds that the act in question contravenes the federal Constitution. It is founded on the principle that courts will be unbiased guardians of the clear meaning of the Constitution. ~ Mark R Levin,
707: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. ~ Bruce Lee,
708:... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch. ~ Susan B Anthony,
709:WWE has not called me to be a part of any roster. My relationship with WWE stands with the video game and the video game only. If they want to extend an olive branch and pick up the phone, then I will make a comment on that once they do it. But prior to that, nothing's been done. ~ Bill Goldberg,
710:Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to. ~ Branch Rickey,
711:He is an innocent in the way that lonesome canaries are innocent, flitting from one branch to another, the tender flutter of their wings and a few millilitres of blood keeping them airborne against the gravity of this world that wants to pull everyone down to its rotting surface. ~ Mohammed Hanif,
712: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. ~ Raymond Louis Wilder,
713:But while I fill up my mouth with prayers, they bring no comfort. My words rattle against each other like the last beech leaves on a winter branch, and though a hard wind scours the forest, it cannot free them from the bough; it will not lift them upward into the wide white sky. ~ Geraldine Brooks,
714:If you want to do other things, you have to leave soap operas, otherwise you'll be there forever, which is not bad, you know. Some people have made a great living off of being on soap operas. But if you want to branch out you have to leave early, otherwise you'll never get the shot. ~ Jackee Harry,
715:I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons ~ George William Curtis,
716:I think the Supreme Court has, as an equal branch of government, the ability to overrule Congress and the president. But I also feel it's the role of the Congress and the president to push back. I mean I think it's important that they are understood as equal branches of government. ~ Rick Santorum,
717:Kunley belongs to a spiritual school of thought known as crazy wisdom. Every religion has its branch of crazy wisdom. The Christians have their Fools for Christ. The Muslims have their Sufi Mast-Qalanders. The Jews have Woody Allen. Yet none is as crazy, or as wise, as Drukpa Kunley. ~ Eric Weiner,
718:No… your punishment is to babysit. No complaining, and I swear to all that is holy, if you touch her – even by accident – I’m cutting off your hands.”
“What if she falls?”
“Then you sure as hell better hope she lands on a tree branch instead of your arms. I mean it, Chase. ~ Rachel Van Dyken,
719:The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government. ~ Phyllis Schlafly,
720:Two men, one fairly dragging the other along, suddenly entered the clearing and, their eyes trained behind them, ran headlong into the owl’s creation and knocked it, every maple branch and every twig of dogwood, to the ground in a splintering crash. The owl fell backward, devastated. ~ Colin Meloy,
721:one look his fears of a dog-fighting ring were valid. Blood was spattered around a makeshift wooden ring. Chains were piled up in a corner. He could see where the cages had been placed in the grass by the indents, but they were gone now. A dead cat was dangling from a tree branch. ~ Kathleen Brooks,
722:the anti-Semitic Moldavian Pavalаchii Cruseveanu (b. 1860). Known as Pavel Krushevan, he not only oversaw the text’s compilation in 1902–3 but instigated the major pogrom in Kishenëv (Chişinau) in 1903 and founded the Bessarabian branch of the Union of the Russian People in 1905.53 ~ Stephen Kotkin,
723:The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been conjectured, sometimes a hundred years or more before they were proved; and they have been suggested by the evidence of a mass of computations. ~ G H Hardy,
724:when that blow should fall, — Lucy would require very different treatment than might be expected for her from the hands of Lady Linlithgow. She would fade and fall to the earth like a flower with an insect at its root. She would be like a wounded branch, into which no sap would run ~ Anthony Trollope,
725:I don't like the subtle infiltration of 'something for nothing' philosophies into the very hearthstone of the American family. I believe that 'Thou shalt earn the bread by the sweat of thy face' was a benediction and not a penalty. Work is the zest of life; there is joy in its pursuit. ~ Branch Rickey,
726:My help cometh from heaven's hills: without Jesus I can do nothing. As a branch cannot bring forth fruit except it abide in the vine, no more can I, except I abide in Him. What Jonah learned in the great deep, let me learn this morning in my closet: "Salvation is of the Lord. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
727: “No acute attacks of guilt and self-hatred?”

“Nope. I’ve taken Mr. Wu’s advice: never mind how hard the times are, he always says, carry a green branch in your heart and a songbird will settle on it.”

“Wow—where on earth does Mr. Wu get all these hoary old sayings from?”  ~ Kerstin Gier,
728:Zoya jolted her open palms against Kuwei’s chest. His body bent like a green branch caught by an unforgiving wind, and once more collapsed against the stretcher. Kuwei gasped, eyes flying open. He struggled to sit up, trying to spit out the wad of fabric. “Thank the Saints,” said Nina. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
729:In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle. ~ Henci Goer,
730:My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?" ~ Janet Fitch,
731:rude little man!’ ‘We’d better not look in at any windows we pass,’ said Joe. ‘But I was so surprised to see a window in the tree!’ Beth soon got dry. They climbed up again, and soon had another surprise. They came to a broad branch that led to a yellow door set neatly in the big trunk of ~ Enid Blyton,
732:We have just said that the scaffold is the only edifice which revolutions do not demolish. It is rare indeed that revolutions are temperate in spilling blood; and although they are sent to prune, to lop, to reform society, the punishment of death is a branch which they have never removed! ~ Victor Hugo,
733:Marcus pulled a small branch from the fire, drawing patterns in the night with the glowing end. “Did I ever tell you I used to dream about you—before we ever met?” “Warn me before you start that kind of talk, so I can throw up,” Riph Raph said, pulling his head back into his shell. Kyja ~ J Scott Savage,
734:Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll see writers that start off telling black stories, but later branch out into other material. People say they "sell out." No, they evolve as writers. ~ Lena Waithe,
735:The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship. ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~ Bah u ll h,
736:Will that branch hold two?” I said, looking at it.
“Maybe. The question is whether you’re willing to risk it.”
I swung onto the branch and started sidling out.
He grinned. “Dumb question, wasn’t it?”
“It was.”
“You can’t resist me.”
“No, I can’t resist a dare. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
737:With the increase of missionary work throughout the world, there must be a comparable increase in the effort to make every convert feel at home in his or her ward or branch. . . . I invite every member to reach out in friendship and love for those who come into the Church as converts. ~ Gordon B Hinckley,
738:As in the autumn-time the leaves fall off, First one and then another, till the branch Surrenders all its spoils to the earth;   In similar fashion did these evil seeds of Adam throw Themselves from the group, one by one, into the boat At Charon's signal, as a bird is called to its lure. ~ Dante Alighieri,
739:He snapped some icicles off a branch to make me a martini. He came back to the car, long legs lifting high in the snow, and there was snow in his hair and on his eyelashes and I remembered that I love him. It felt like something breaking with a little pain and spilling warm. I hope the parka ~ Thomas Harris,
740:There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics. ~ William Stanley Jevons,
741:I could do a thousand films that are easy for me to do-that's if I don't fall in the next year, because everyone's about to fall. What's so funny is you look at all us young guys and we're already thinking, Well, I'm going to branch out into directing, and it's all going to be this and that. ~ Cate Blanchett,
742:In the early 1900s, a Florida farmer found a notable bud sport while inspecting his grove of Walters grapefruit trees. Tree after tree bore white fruit, except one. On that tree, the farmer spotted a branch weighed down with pink fruits. From that single bud sport, all pink grapefruits descend. ~ Carl Zimmer,
743:I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things. So that people will know that I am reaching out and trying to be a little more versatile. So they realize he is not a "Dirty Harry." He doesn't advocate martial law or mayhem -it's a character. ~ Clint Eastwood,
744:1029
The Veins Of Other Flowers
811
The Veins of other Flowers
The Scarlet Flowers are
Till Nature leisure has for Terms
As "Branch," and "Jugular."
We pass, and she abides.
We conjugate Her Skill
While She creates and federates
Without a syllable.
~ Emily Dickinson,
745:Cyrano: The leaves---
Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.
Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way
From the branch to the earth, a little fear
Of mingling with the common dust---and yet
They go down gracefully---a fall that seems
Like flying! ~ Edmond Rostand,
746:I'm not going to say that all the cabinet appointments of the men and women, you know, obviously we might have some reservations on some, but the women's movement has congratulated them for some of the appointments and is urging and encouraging more women in the Executive Branch and high areas. ~ Eleanor Smeal,
747:In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point. ~ Dan Barber,
748:Everyone all right?"
Angela nodded. Holly looked up and smiled too, her smile shakier and thus more real than Ash's. "I'm okay," she said. "I see you are too. I also see you have a weapon that is on fire."
"I'm badass like that," Kami said, putting the branch down on the cobblestones. ~ Sarah Rees Brennan,
749:It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge." ~ Wynton Marsalis,
750:As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike. ~ Michael Faraday,
751:The Topmost Branch Of A Tree
The topmost branch of a tree
trembled in the early morning
and
saw its shadow on the ground.
It looked towards the sky
but
fell in love with the earth.
A wind shook the tree;
it lapped the pain.
[Translated by Arvind Gigoo]
~ Dina Nath Nadim,
752:I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions. ~ Annie Lennox,
753:Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges. ~ Sandra Day O Connor,
754:I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that. ~ Adam Driver,
755:I could enlarge this catalogue with broken arms, and broken legs, and gashed flesh, and missing teeth, and lacerated backs, and bites of dogs, and brands of red-hot irons innumerable: but as my readers will be sufficiently sickened and repelled already, I will turn to another branch of the subject. ~ Charles Dickens,
756:There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father--my real father--is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time ago now. My mother coughs and cleans phantom juices off her silver with a cloth doily. My sisters clench their knives. ~ Karen Russell,
757:On July 5, the Second Continental Congress made one final feeble effort to ward off further hostilities when it endorsed the Olive Branch Petition, urging a negotiated solution to the conflict with England. The document professed loyalty to the king and tactfully blamed his “artful and cruel” ministers. ~ Ron Chernow,
758:No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! – No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! – But who will remain to enjoy you? ~ Jane Austen,
759:One study group in particular, informally led by William Shockley at the West Street labs, and often joined by Brattain, Fisk, Townes, and Woolridge, among others, met on Thursday afternoons. The men were interested in a particular branch of physics that would later take on the name “solid-state physics. ~ Jon Gertner,
760:To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate symbolic representation. That is only another way of saying that in some branches of discourse it is desirable to know what you are talking about. ~ James R Newman,
761:I always go heavy and I always go to failure. Even when I tell myself I'm gonna go easy, once I get to the gym and start working, I never end up going easy. I hate leaving the floor feeling like I could have done more weight or more reps. I just love working out and going further than I ever did before. ~ Branch Warren,
762:Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane. ~ John B Watson,
763:Abe picked up a shiny silver star, now a bit tarnished, the symbol of a happier time. The year after their daughter's death came the joy of a a newborn son,. Jeremy just squeaked into life the day before the holiday. The star was Abe's gift to his wife that Christmas. He smiled as he hung it on a branch. ~ Debra Holland,
764:I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America. ~ Barack Obama,
765:While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans. ~ Michel Chossudovsky,
766:Grace is not currency dispensed from an impersonal, computerized ATM. Grace is deeply personal, it is glue, securing the branch of our Christian life into the trunk of Christ’s all-sufficiency. Grace binds us to the person of Christ, to his vital life, and to the full spectrum of his all-sufficient benefits. ~ Tony Reinke,
767:I recall how the flash of her glowing dress against my closing eyelids was like the neon glow of hotels flashing VACANCY VACANCY on a long night ride. I felt the weight of my mind hanging from a branch, pulling, pulling, and before I knew it the stem had snapped and I was falling, blind, into the void. ~ Andrew Sean Greer,
768:I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path. But it's never just one moment. It's a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there's a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don't. ~ Nicola Yoon,
769:Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course? ~ Thomas Frank,
770:These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it. ~ Branch Rickey,
771:I know how you feel because I’ve been there too. I’ve hated and I’ve loved. I’ve seen my demons root and crawl and my angels branch and soar. I've died within myself and lived a thousand different lives. I too fight the same war and I too am drowning in the puddles of self-consciousness this world created. ~ Robert M Drake,
772:In the matter of learned skills, memory comes to a fork in the road. Down one branch are the it’s-like-riding-a-bicycle skills; things which, once learned, are almost never forgotten. But the creative, ever-changing forebrain skills have to be practiced almost daily, and they are easily damaged or destroyed. ~ Stephen King,
773:propose taking sexism to be the branch of patriarchal ideology that justifies and rationalizes a patriarchal social order, and misogyny as the system that polices and enforces its governing norms and expectations. So sexism is scientific; misogyny is moralistic. And a patriarchal order has a hegemonic quality. ~ Kate Manne,
774:the weeks following the war’s end, Truman announced a redesign of the presidential flag—the first since the Wilson years. Chief among the changes was the shifting of the eagle’s head away from the arrows of war instead toward the olive branch of peace, reflecting the nation’s desire for a universal peace. ~ Garrett M Graff,
775:Zoya jolted her open palms against Kuwei’s chest. His body bent like a green branch caught by an unforgiving wind, and once more collapsed against the stretcher. Kuwei gasped, eyes flying open. He struggled to sit up, trying to spit out the wad of fabric. “Thank the Saints,” said Nina. “Thank me,” said Zoya. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
776:I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see." ~ Joe Frazier,
777:You are not falling in love with God. You fell into Mr. Love. You are united to Love. Love is a Person. Now, just as the sap flows effortlessly through the vine into the branch, so is there a continual infilling of Holy Spirit – a continual infilling of Love Himself. You grow in Love, just as the branch grows. ~ John Crowder,
778:Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter. ~ Daniel Handler,
779:I completely fell in love with riding horses. I really didn't want to wear a helmet when I would go off with the trainer on weekends, galloping through forests and stuff. But thank God he made me, because one time, I was going under a tree and my helmet hit a branch. It literally would have taken my head off. ~ Bradley Cooper,
780:The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails. ~ Barack Obama,
781:The tree doesn't die, nor do I when you cut off a branch or a finger, we both heal so we don't lose all the sap or blood. That to me is total shock. Also that water defies the laws of physics by becoming less dense when frozen. Life really is a miracle and all the things that are been built into us through it. ~ Bernie Siegel,
782:But if you see black identity as you see southern identity, or Irish identity, or Italian identity—not as a separate trunk, but as a branch of the American tree, with roots in the broader experience—then you understand that the particulars of black culture are inseparable from the particulars of the country. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
783:He applauded a belated decision to evacuate Garfield from the White House in early September and bring him by train to Long Branch. “During the months of August and September the White House is one of the most unhealthy places in the world,” Grant told the press. “He should have been taken from there long ago.”20 ~ Ron Chernow,
784:It is a natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity – in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes – an interesting side branch. ~ Bill Bryson,
785:A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically and actually, — whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it. ~ James Branch Cabell,
786:Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to take motion, moving inward with the fury of a sleepwalking child, traveling through my intestines blindly - ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
787:out·post n. a small military camp or position at some distance from the main force, used esp. as a guard against surprise attack. - a remote part of a country or empire. - FIGURATIVE something regarded as an isolated or remote branch of something: the community is the last outpost of civilization in the far north. ~ Erin McKean,
788:Sanctions that target individuals rather than entire countries would allow Congress to put pressure on the executive branch when it doesn’t act. And these sanctions cost virtually nothing to implement. They’re the equivalent of a nextgeneration cancer treatment that targets cancer cells instead of the whole patient. ~ Anonymous,
789:What you need to do is harness the self-love you are hypostasizing as offspring, as the next generation of you, and let it branch out horizontally into the possibility of a transpersonal revolutionary subject in the present and coconstruct a world in which moments can be something other than the elements of profit. ~ Ben Lerner,
790:You start by copying other people's paintings or music or whatever. You get all of those skills before you branch out. Really creative people have a fantastic ability to copy things and then combine them in new ways. And whether we're talking about genes or memes, recombination is the real heart of creativity. ~ Susan Blackmore,
791:Over the course of the summer, he taught the children to eat foods they had never known, to sharpen and use knives, to carve their own spoons, to make knots and play Indian games and- every time they cut a branch off a living tree- to cut away a small lock of their own hair, to leave as an offering of thanks. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert,
792:The one object God had in making you a branch is that Christ may through you bring life to men. Your personal salvation, your business and care for your family, are entirely subordinate to this. Your first aim in life, your first aim every day, should be to know how Christ desires to carry out His purpose in you. ~ Andrew Murray,
793:Song Ii
Oh roses for the flush of youth,
And laurel for the perfect prime;
But pluck an ivy branch for me
Grown old before my time.
Oh violets for the grave of youth,
And bay for those dead in their prime;
Give me the withered leaves I chose
Before in the old time.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti,
794:Song Iv
Oh roses for the flush of youth,
And laurel for the perfect prime;
But pluck an ivy branch for me
Grown old before my time.
Oh violets for the grave of youth,
And bay for those dead in their prime;
Give me the withered leaves I chose
Before in the old time.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti,
795:The book of Jeremiah is a constant reminder of God’s faithfulness to his word in Deuteronomy that his elect will be cursed by exile for their unfaithfulness to Yahweh but will be restored at a later time with the hope of a new covenant—which was fulfilled through Jesus Christ, David’s “righteous Branch” (Jer 23:5). ~ Gordon D Fee,
796:I swung onto the next branch as Rafe did the same on the other side. I felt the bear’s hot breath on my stockinged foot and snatched it away as his teeth clicked together. He roared in frustration, then leaned on the tree and shook it again.
“Hold on!” Rafe shouted, like I was planning on doing anything else. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
797:Jesus never commanded believers to produce fruit. Fruit is the *purpose* of the branch, but it is not the *responsibility* of the branch. The branch cannot produce anything on it's own. However, if it remains attached to the vine, it will receive life-sustaining sap, nourishment, strength, everything it needs. ~ Charles R Swindoll,
798:Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt at peace. It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions. ~ Ally Condie,
799:That I expect them to break the rules and to climb up to the highest branch and saw it off behind them. I tell them that risk and open-ended problems are what we do in design. Design is a problem-solving methodology not a ‘task’ and this will be hard because they have only had tasks so far in their education. ~ Julie Lythcott Haims,
800:The monkey is reaching For the moon in the water. Until death overtakes him He'll never give up. If he'd let go the branch and Disappear in the deep pool, The whole world would shine With dazzling pureness. [1799.jpg] -- from Essential Teachings of Zen Master Hakuin, by Norman Waddell

~ Hakuin, The monkey is reaching
,
801:It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court - Chief Justice [John] Roberts, Harriet Miers and now Judge Alito - has served not only as a lawyer for the executive branch, but has defended the most expansive view of presidential authority. ~ Edward Kennedy,
802:Do we look at Harvard or Oxford and say, “If they’d only expand and branch out and hire thousands more professors and go global and open other campuses all over the world … then they’d be great schools.” Of course not. That’s not how we measure the value of these institutions. So why is it the way we measure businesses? ~ Jason Fried,
803:Each day the mythical return Enzian dreamed of seems less possible. Once it was necessary to know uniforms, insignia, airplane markings, to observe boundaries. But by now too many choices have been made. The single root lost, way back there in the May desolation. Each bird has his branch now, and each one is the Zone. ~ Thomas Pynchon,
804:He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same sort of place as Gehenna. My elders thought this far-fetched, but I saw no reason why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since. ~ Robertson Davies,
805:Song V
Two doves upon the selfsame branch,
Two lilies on a single stem,
Two butterflies upon one flower:—
Oh happy they who look on them.
Who look upon them hand in hand
Flushed in the rosy summer light;
Who look upon them hand in hand
And never give a thought to night.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti,
806:The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court. ~ Mike Huckabee,
807:There is, moreover, a sign by which you may distinguish Thragnar. For if you deny what he says, he will promptly concede you are in the right. This was the curse put upon him by Miramon Lluagor, for a detection and a hindrance.” “By that unhuman trait,” says Jurgen, “ Thragnar ought to be very easy to distinguish. ~ James Branch Cabell,
808:Tree

It is foolish
to let a young redwood
grow next to a house.

Even in this
one lifetime,
you will have to choose.

That great calm being,
this clutter of soup pots and books--

Already the first branch-tips brush at the window.
Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life. ~ Jane Hirshfield,
809:Externally, the jollity of aged men has much in common with the mirth of children; the intellect, any more than a deep sense of humor, has little to do with the matter; it is, with both, a gleam that plays upon the surface, and imparts a sunny and cheery aspect alike to the green branch, and gray, mouldering trunk. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne,
810:Mathilde saw her own face reflected in the window, but no, it was a barn owl on a low branch in the cherry trees. She could barely master herself. She had never expected this. These women, such kindness, their eyes shining in the dim room. They saw her. She didn't know why, but they saw her, and they loved her even still. ~ Lauren Groff,
811:Prayer is the natural outgushing of a soul in communion with Jesus. Just as the leaf and the fruit will come out of the vine-branch without any conscious effort on the part of the branch, but simply because of its living union with the stem, so prayer buds, and blossoms, and fruits out of souls abiding in Jesus. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
812:Artificial intelligence is defined as the branch of science and technology that is concerned with the study of software and hardware to provide machines the ability to learn insights and patterns from data and the environment, and the ability to adapt automatically to changing situations with high precision, accuracy and speed. ~ Amit Ray,
813:I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else. ~ Vinny Guadagnino,
814:On the one hand we want to preserve the integrity of the judicial branch, and we want to talk about judicial independence, and how damaging and dangerous it is when Donald Trump calls out Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel. And at the same time, at the end of the day, judges work for us and we can recall them and we can impeach them. ~ Dahlia Lithwick,
815:Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart. ~ Alan Cooper,
816:When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,
817:But the greatest obstacle of all to the successful prosecution of a new branch of industry in a country, in which it was before unknown, consists . . . in the bounties, premiums, and other aids which are granted, in a variety of cases, by the nations, in which the establishments to be imitated are previously introduced. ~ Alexander Hamilton,
818:Neither seeking fame nor grieving my poverty I hide deep in the mountain far from worldly dust. Year ending cold sky who will befriend me? Plum blossom on a new branch wrapped in moonlight [2472.jpg] -- from A Quiet Room: The Poetry of Zen Master Jakushitsu, Translated by Arthur Braverman

~ Jakushitsu, Living in the Mountains
,
819:True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of varietyis but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety. ~ Marcel Proust,
820:Wellington, Jack had never cared about pleasing anyone but himself. Lord Geoffrey, his spendthrift, gamester father and Lord Foxhaven's second son, had died when Jack was but eight. Two years later, his mother married Sir Findlay Branch, a wealthy, stuffy baronet whose apparent mission in life was to eradicate Lord Geoffrey's ~ Brenda Hiatt,
821:He was chairman of the British branch of the Company, and had had shares allocated to him, — or, as he said, to the house, — to the extent of two millions of dollars. But still there was a feeling of doubt, and a consciousness that Melmotte, though a tower of strength, was thought by many to have been built upon the sands. ~ Anthony Trollope,
822:I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach. ~ Richard Dawkins,
823:I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. ~ William James,
824:Her greatest wish I should think was that I would remain exactly as I was, and how I regret that that was not to be. It was only for her roses that she wished for change, the strange moment of loral enchantment when the branch of a rose mutates, and shows a "sport," something new arising from the known rose. A leap in beauty. ~ Sebastian Barry,
825:if something happened and he wasn’t present, he didn’t care about it and barely recognized it. His response then was often just a blank stare. It also fed one theory of why hiring in the West Wing and throughout the executive branch was so slow—filling out the vast bureaucracy was out of his view and thus he couldn’t care less. ~ Michael Wolff,
826:Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the contours and convolutions of Carroll’s plot anyway.What’s more, he probably would have been delighted at how this whimsical branch of math invaded the real world and became crucial to understanding our biology. ~ Sam Kean,
827:And all the branch possesses belongs to the vine. The branch does not exist for itself, but to bear fruit that can proclaim the excellence of the vine: it has no reason of existence except to be of service to the vine. Glorious image of the calling of the believer, and the entireness of his consecration to the service of his Lord. ~ Andrew Murray,
828:Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul. ~ Wallace Stevens,
829:I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There is nothing in common between writing checks and running branch offices, issuing credit cards - those are good businesses, but they really have zero in common with M&A advice. They're a different customer. ~ Ken Moelis,
830:Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch. ~ Edward Bouverie Pusey,
831:To the branch's edge and the leaf's under surface be most attentive Its pervasive aroma envelopes people far away The realms of form and function can't contain it Spring leaks profusely through the basket [2472.jpg] -- from A Quiet Room: The Poetry of Zen Master Jakushitsu, Translated by Arthur Braverman

~ Jakushitsu, Gathering Tea
,
832:What was the more likely cause of the Oklahoma City bombing: talk radio or Bill Clinton and Janet Renos hands-on management of Waco, the Branch Davidian compound?...Obviously, the answer is talk radio. Specifically Rush Limbaughs hate radio....Frankly, Rush, you have that blood on your hands now and you have had it for 15 years. ~ Keith Olbermann,
833:Becoming a tree is a long journey, and so even the most experienced botanist cannot look at a twig on a sapling and accurately describe what kind of branch it might develop into over the next fifty years. Plant growth curves can be useful for guessing, but it is important to remember that they don’t show us the future, only the past. ~ Hope Jahren,
834:I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom. ~ Tom Hodgkinson,
835:The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft,
836:The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold. ~ Christopher Hitchens,
837:What branch do you want to go in?” “I don’ give a god-damn,” said Pilon jauntily. “I guess we need men like you in the infantry.” And Pilon was written so. He turned then to Big Joe, and the Portagee was getting sober. “Where do you want to go?” “I want to go home,” Big Joe said miserably. The sergeant put him in the infantry too. ~ John Steinbeck,
838:Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head - this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle. ~ Johnny Carson,
839:The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government. ~ Avro Manhattan,
840:There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. ~ Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, as quoted in George Edward Martin, The Foundations of Geometry and the Non-Euclidean Plane, Springer (1998 [1975]), p. 225; also in Stanley Gudder, A Mathematical Journey, McGraw-Hill (1976), p. 36.,
841:Unreason is now ascendant in the United States - in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. Only 28 percent of Americans believe in evolution; 68 percent believe in Satan. Ignorance in this degree, concentrated in both the head and belly of a lumbering superpower, is now a problem for the entire world. ~ Sam Harris,
842:Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain? Had I even the secret of one such mind, did I hold the key to the fancy of even one lunatic, I might advance my own branch of science to a pitch compared with which Burdon-Sanderson’s physiology or Ferrier’s brain knowledge would be as nothing. ~ Bram Stoker,
843:Life is an all-encompassing art gallery. From the seasons ushering in change to the way a body moves during dance; from the way one smile paints another to the waddle of a street rat – every facet of life is art in motion. Every time a bird takes flight from a branch the scene changes; each time the winds shift brings new perspective. ~ Sheila Burke,
844:chew on one thinker-writer, activist, role model- you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people the thinker loved and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you built your tree, it's time to start your own branch. ~ Austin Kleon,
845:Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense. ~ Jean Baptiste Say,
846:His name is Brokenkit,” I said, my voice faltering. Lizardstripe nodded, seeing the bend in his tail, like a broken branch. That’s where every cat would think he’d gotten his name. But the truth is, I named him for the feeling in my chest as I left him there, as if my heart were breaking in two, as if my life had broken down the middle. ~ Erin Hunter,
847:I lifted the latch, and there he stood, dark and tall, the scholar's gown falling from his shoulders like the cloak of the Black Knight in the old tale. His arms were laden with boughs of apple blossom. He lifted a branch, high over my head, and shook it, so that the petals showered me, releasing a heady scent that promised spring. ~ Geraldine Brooks,
848:I’m supposed to hire two more team members out of whatever law enforcement branch I can entice them from, but I haven’t really bothered. Seeing as how every case I have is like a bad episode of The X-Files, but without the actual monsters, aliens and government conspiracies, I just don’t see the need to deal with more personalities. ~ Jeremy Robinson,
849:You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me. ~ Pablo Neruda,
850:Changing into shorts, he took a cold can of beer from the refrigerator and drank it, standing, while he heated a large pot of water. Before the water boiled, he stripped all the leathery edamame pods from the branch, spread them on a cutting board, and rubbed them all over with salt. When the water boiled, he threw them into the pot. ~ Haruki Murakami,
851:I’ll tell you something,' he said, as if he had said nothing that day. 'You’re walking on gallows ground, and there’s a rope around your neck and a raven-bird on each shoulder waiting for your eyes, and the gallows tree has deep roots, for it stretches from heaven to hell, and our world is only the branch from which the rope is swinging. ~ Neil Gaiman,
852:The bailiff tucked the jurors into their windowless room where they could surf for porn on their PDAs, and the judge turned to me. “Mr. Lassiter, Ah assume you got some legal mumbo jumbo for the record.” His Honor came from a family of gentleman farmers in Homestead by way of Kentucky, and his voice rippled with bourbon and branch water. ~ Paul Levine,
853:I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat. Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds? ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,
854:There's a leaf clinging fast to
a branch,
though withered, it somehow
holds on,
and a single bird singing its song,
though all of its kindred have gone.

And as long as that little leaf stays,
and as long as that stubborn
bird sings,
then autumn remains in the world,
and winter must wait in the wings. ~ Jack Prelutsky,
855:At the edge of the lot, wildflowers had taken over, forming a thick border. I stopped to pick a bouquet of gold buttercups and yellow-and-white oxeye daisies. I plucked a sprig of Queen Anne's lace and watched a black swallowtail butterfly land on a branch of goldenrod. Then I stretched and took a deep breath. The air was mellow and sweet. ~ Mary Simses,
856:As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications. ~ Charles Darwin,
857:Sure we do," said Theo, swatting at a branch. "We get to the spring, Alia gets cured. We argue over the best choice for our We Saved The World victory dance."
"I do enjoy your optimism," said Diana.
"And I admire your ability to lift a car over your head without breaking a sweat and look fine as hell doing it," said Theo with a bow. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
858:You have responsibilities, now, Bob. You must lose this naive understanding of violence! You are embarrassin' me in front of the lads! You can't play by their rules or they'll win unfailingly! You don't engage in courtly play-fightin' with one such as this. You get a great friggin' tree-branch and keep hittin' him with it until he dies. ~ Neal Stephenson,
859:Instruction in academia did not emphasize what I thought of as essential points. I was interested in the broad range of interrelated connections within the physical sciences, but formal studies isolated each branch of science.” I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vinci’s such as access to more information, materials, and methods. ~ Jacque Fresco,
860:his job clearly had something to do with guns, because he held an HK416 rifle in his hand now, leveled at Court’s chest. He stood alone in the small doorway, but now the main hangar door slid open, ten feet off Court’s right, and an entire Special Activities Division Ground Branch field team walked out, each man carrying an automatic weapon. ~ Mark Greaney,
861:I want no thunder or lightning to remind me of my God, nor am I as apt to bethink on most of all His goodness in trouble and tribulations as on a calm, solemn, quiet day in a forest, when His voice is heard in the creaking of a dead branch or in the song of a bird, as much in my ears at least as it is ever heard in uproar and gales. ~ James Fenimore Cooper,
862:What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league. ~ Walter Dean Myers,
863:The Blissworm inched up a tree, hung upside down from a branch, and blew Charlotte a kiss good-bye, and then its soft body slowly hardened into a cocoon—which was very surprising, since Conner had never mentioned anything about it having a metamorphosis. The space worm even placed a DO NOT DISTURB sign on the corner of its chrysalis. Although ~ Chris Colfer,
864:These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino astronomy. Supernova explosions that are invisible to us because of dust clouds may occur in our galaxy as often as once every 10 years, and neutrino bursts could give us a way to study them. ~ John N Bahcall,
865:The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed. ~ Edgar Allan Poe,
866:chew on one thinker—writer, artist, activist, role model—you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people that thinker loved, and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you build your tree, it’s time to start your own branch. ~ Austin Kleon,
867:I’ll tell you something,” he said, as if he had said nothing that day. “You’re walking on gallows ground, and there’s a hempen rope around your neck and a raven-bird on each shoulder, waiting for your eyes, and the gallows tree has deep roots, for it stretches from heaven to hell, and our world is only the branch from which the rope is swinging. ~ Neil Gaiman,
868:I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like a tear. Dad nods and walks to the Jeep, keys jangling in his fingers. A mockingbird lands on a low oak branch and scolds me. I rake the leaves out of my throat.

Me: "Can you buy some seeds? Flower seeds? ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,
869:Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history ~ Neil Cross,
870:The cake sitting on the dining room buffet table was wide and three layers tall. There was a fondant topper shaped like a branch, and from that branch draped candy strings of Spanish moss, flowing down the side of the cake like a veil. Bey kept looking over it. Why did Lisette make it so large? They were going to be eating cake for weeks. ~ Sarah Addison Allen,
871:If in order to avoid further Communist expansion in Asia and particularly in Indo-China, if in order to avoid it we must take the risk by putting American boys in, I believe that the executive branch of the government has to take the politically unpopular position of facing up to it and doing it, and I personally would support such a decision. ~ Richard M Nixon,
872:For ever so long, on a branch of this willow
Sits a bird, the colour of a riddle.
Attuned to him no sound, no colour.
Totally alone, like me, in this land.
[...]

The bird's tale comes straight from the heart:
What fails to arrive is idle fancy.
His are ties with cities lost:
The riddle bird is a stranger in this land. ~ Sohrab Sepehri,
873:I thought I asked you to stay inside today.”
“I was careful.” She grabbed the lowest branch and swung up. “I wanted to see Maya. I wanted to make sure she was coming over for dinner.”
“I haven’t invited her yet.”
Annie grabbed our branch.
“Whoa, no!” Rafe said as it dipped. “She can’t come over if she falls and breaks both her legs. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
874:Love this description of minor character, Lou Zicutto: "Lou was branch claims manager of the mammoth insurance company where Decker worked part-time as an investigator. Lou was a spindly little twit, maybe a hundred twenty pounds, but he had a huge florid head, which he shaved every day. As a result he looked very much like a Tootsie Pop with lips. ~ Carl Hiaasen,
875:The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected - and by physical relations of fascinating complexity. ~ Alan Watts,
876:If a period is a stop sign, then what kind of traffic flow is created by other marks? The comma is a speed bump; the semicolon is what a driver education teacher calls a “rolling stop”; the parenthetical expression is a detour; the colon is a flashing yellow light that announces something important up ahead; the dash is a tree branch in the road. ~ Roy Peter Clark,
877:When they are married, yes; and every girl who thinks of marrying should know that in very much she must adapt herself to her husband. But I do not think that a woman should be the ivy, to take the direction of every branch of the tree to which she clings. If she does so, what can be her own character? But we must go on, or we shall be too late. ~ Anthony Trollope,
878:How did you know I was different?”

“You mean besides the obvious obsidian, the alien entourage, and the branch?” He laughed. “You’re full of electricity. See?” He reached between the seats and placed his hand over mine. Static crackled, jolting us both.

Daemon grabbed Blake’s hand and threw it back at him. “I do not like you. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,
879:I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
880:Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring tree. Breathe life into it. Make it bend - trees are flexible, so they don't snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch - perfect trees don't exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,
881:Winkler's breath plumed up onto his glasses. The entire valley was enveloped in a huge, illuminated stillness. Above him the clouds had pulled away and the sky burned with stars. The meadow smoldered with light, and the spruce had become illuminated kingdoms, snow sifting from branch to branch. He thought: This has been here every winter all my life. ~ Anthony Doerr,
882:Patricia waited until Tommington had reached the top, then swung down the other side of the tree, dropping from branch to branch so fast she almost pulled her arm out, and then landed on the ground on her butt with an oof. “Hey,” Tommington said from the top of the tree, where his big eyes caught the moonlight. “Where did you go? Come back here! ~ Charlie Jane Anders,
883:They intended to use America’s absence from the world scene to overthrow the Saudi king, expropriate the wealth of his branch of the royal family and its supporters, reconcile with Iran and Syria, and establish a modern technocratic caliphate using science and technology to raise the standing of the Muslim world to heights not seen in a thousand years. ~ Bill Clinton,
884:If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils. ~ Charles Darwin,
885:since 1886, the Bill of Rights has been explicitly applied to corporations. Perhaps most astoundingly, no branch of the U.S. government ever formally enacted corporate personhood “rights”: • The public never voted on it. • It was never enacted into law by any legislature. • It was never even stated by a decision after arguments before the Supreme Court. ~ Thom Hartmann,
886:Sometimes, Gerald, people break the law so clearly you can hear it crack like a tree branch snapped in two. But other times, like a baker twisting a roll of dough into a pretzel, you only bend the law. You don’t tear it. You don’t break it. You end up with something better than the ingredients you started with. And the final result is beautiful to behold. ~ Paul Levine,
887:Storm
H. D., 1886 - 1961

You crash over the trees,
you crack the live branch
the branch is white,
the green crushed,
each leaf is rent like split wood.

You burden the trees
with black drops,
you swirl and crash—
you have broken off a weighted leaf
in the wind,
it is hurled out,
whirls up and sinks,
a green stone. ~ H D,
888:To hold down advertising is to have nearly the entire publishing and broadcasting industries under your thumb. There’s not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn’t depend in some way on advertising. It’d be like an aquarium without water. Why, ninety-five percent of the information that reaches you has already been preselected and paid for. ~ Haruki Murakami,
889:David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming together in one Person, that by one and the same conception and birth might spring our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom was present both true Godhead for the performance of mighty works and true Manhood for the endurance of sufferings. ~ Pope Leo I,
890:It is impossible to discuss realism in logic without drawing in the empirical sciences... A truly realistic mathematics should be conceived, in line with physics, as a branch of the theoretical construction of the one real world and should adopt the same sober and cautious attitude toward hypothetic extensions of its foundation as is exhibited by physics. ~ Hermann Weyl,
891:Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to your vehicle. We all have a vehicle. Whether it's a thug, or a school child or the babyface or the sex siren or the video vin, whatever it is ride that until the wheels fall off and eventually, if you build your foundation then you can branch off. ~ Michael K Williams,
892:All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When something terrible happens, you discover all of the sudden that you have a new set of relatives, people with whom you can speak in the shorthand of cousins. ~ Elizabeth McCracken,
893:so, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
894:The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early days. Then that changed, and senators did become elected. But the Senate is designed to slow down out-of-control, madcap activity elsewhere in the legislative branch (i.e., in the House), and the 60-vote rule was part of that. ~ Rush Limbaugh,
895:Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one. The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat. ~ John of Damascus,
896:This was the problem with a small school in a small town. Not only did the students all look like each other, they’d all developed the same nervous tics. It made me wonder about inbreeding. Take off their shoes, and did they have webbed feet? Was the weird-looking fish boy who’d stolen my book just a relative on the more damaged branch of the family tree? ~ Daryl Gregory,
897:Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had undergone a significant transformation or vanished: Cody’s in Berkeley, seven branch libraries in Philadelphia, twelve of the fourteen bookstores in Harvard Square, Harry W. Schwartz in Milwaukee and, in my own hometown of Washington, D.C., Olsson’s and Chapters. ~ Azar Nafisi,
898:I’m old enough to remember when the Republic shot itself right in the knee. It wasn’t taken over by the Empire. It became the Empire slowly, surely, not overnight but over years and decades. Fruit always tastes nice when it’s ripe. But it can’t stay like that. Every nice piece of fruit will rot on the branch if it hangs there long enough. You remember that. ~ Chuck Wendig,
899:I saw that this was how we would live out the next decades, dragging ourselves from one expected action to the next, hoping by meticulous duty to bring each other some small measure of happiness. But the comfort that duty offers is lukewarm at best. Happiness, like a mischievous bird that hops from branch to branch, would continue to elude us. ~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
900:The late political scientist Aaron B. Wildavsky noted that “the power of the purse is the heart of legislative authority and thus an essential check on the executive branch.” Indeed, he observed, “An executive establishment freed from dependence for funds upon the legislature (and hence the public) would be a law unto itself and ultimately a despotism.”9 ~ Andrew McCarthy,
901:My first encounter with a baguette, torn still warm from its paper sheathing, shattered and sighed on contact. The sound stopped me in my tracks, the way a crackling branch gives deer pause; that’s what good crust does. Once I began to chew, the flavor unfolded, deep with yeast and salt, the warm humidity of the tender crumb almost breathing against my lips. ~ Sasha Martin,
902:There's got to be a moment when that baby [flying] squirrel looks from the end of one branch to the tree six feet away and thinks twice about making a leap. Falling in love is no different; it's the moment that we close our eyes and throw away everything that seems reasonable and hope to God there's someone or something waiting to catch us on the other side. ~ Jodi Picoult,
903:I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Politics Is the Entertainment Branch of Industry. C-SPAN's coverage of governmental proceedings is wonderful. Caution! Buffoons on the Hill! Wallowing in blabber and spew, regiments of ex-lawyers and used-car salesmen attempt to distract us from the naughty little surprises served up by deregulated corporate America. ~ Frank Zappa,
904:The heat of the incinerator wrapped around Inej like a living thing, a desert dragon in his den, hiding from the ice, waiting for her. She knew her body’s limits, and she knew she had no more to give. She’d made a bad wager. It was as simple as that. The autumn leaf might cling to its branch, but it was already dead. The only question was when it would fall. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
905:A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure of their oppressions. But should even this be counteracted by violence on the right of expatriation, the other branch of our example then presents itself for imitation: to rise on their rulers and do as we have done. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
906:During deep NREM sleep specifically, the brain communicates a calming signal to the fight-or-flight sympathetic branch of the body’s nervous system, and does so for long durations of the night. As a result, deep sleep prevents an escalation of this physiological stress that is synonymous with increased blood pressure, heart attack, heart failure, and stroke. ~ Matthew Walker,
907:[I watch] all that stuff - Game of Thrones and all the other series. How about House of Cards? As for Boardwalk Empire - that's another period of government overreach, but at least they use the amendment process! In real life, the executive branch, by violating the Constitution, is using statutes in place of constitutional amendments to diminish our liberty. ~ Edward Snowden,
908:So it was, your majesty, that I forever relinquished my sewing, and became a lovely peril, a flashing desolation, and an evil which smites by night, in spite of my abhorrence of irregular hours: and what I do I dislike extremely, for it is a sad fate to become a vampire, and still to sympathize with your victims, and particularly with their poor mothers. ~ James Branch Cabell,
909:She felt like a dry branch, sticking out of the air. Brittle, covered in old bark. Maybe she was thirsty, but there was no water nearby. And above all the suffocating certainty that if a man were to embrace her at that moment she would feel not a soft sweetness in her nerves, but lime juice stinging them, her body like wood near fire, warped, crackling, dry. ~ Clarice Lispector,
910:Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct. ~ Aristotle,
911:There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. ~ C S Lewis,
912:In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology". ~ Rachel Carson,
913:You have responsibilities now, Bob. You must lose this naïve understanding of violence! You are embarrassin’ me in front of the lads! You can’t play by their rules or they’ll win unfailingly! You don’t engage in courtly play-fightin’ with one such as this. You get a great friggin’ tree-branch and keep hittin’ him with it until he dies. Like that. D’you see, boys? ~ Neal Stephenson,
914:Algiz literally means 'the roots, branch', and it also means 'to cut'. Its link to ancient Egyptian 'Ka' is unmistakable. The origins of Santa Claus are found there long before the 'family tree' tradition got transmitted into Babylon. Even on the circular zodiac of Dendera, there is a cut leg piece of a bull alongside a crab running parallel to the Christmas Axis. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim,
915:In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others. In the almost unfathomable Ts'ui Pen, he chooses – simultaneously – all of them. He thus creates various futures, various times which start others that will in their turn branch out and bifurcate in other times. That is the cause of the contradictions in the novel. ~ Jorge Luis Borges,
916:In Trout's novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in diameter. He gets a realistic novel out of the branch library in his neighborhood. He reads about sixty pages of it, and then he takes it back. The librarian asks him why he doesn't like it, and he says to her, 'I already know about human beings. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
917:The Mayor about the fable of the Prodigal Son:

'But he came home.'
'Yes, his courage failed him. He felt very alone on that pig farm. There was no branch of the Party to which he could look for help. Das Kapital had not yet been written, so he was unable to situate himself in the class struggle. Is it any wonder that he wavered for a time, poor boy? ~ Graham Greene,
918:I've noticed that there is danger in spending all this time writing about those "publicans and sinners" over there in the great and spacious building. If our spot near the tree of life becomes a Rameumptom where we congratulate each other on our chosen-ness and look down on everyone else, then we're occupying nothing more than a branch office of the great and spacious. ~ John Bytheway,
919:Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Negligence or indifference are usually reviewed from an unlucky seat. The law of cause and effect and causality both work the same with inexorable exactitudes. Luck is the residue of design. ~ Branch Rickey,
920:Tell me about your family," I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way. ~ Mitch Albom,
921:And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest.

(View from Windermere in the Lake District) ~ Susan Branch,
922:In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge. ~ Alfred Russel Wallace,
923:I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path. The moment that answered the question, 'How did I get here?'

But it's never just one moment. It's a series of them. And your life can branch out from each one in a thousand different ways. Maybe there's a version of your life for all the choices you make and all the choices you don't. ~ Nicola Yoon,
924:Obama has repeatedly defied the limits of his constitutional authority, aggregating powers unto himself in ways past presidents have not. During more than six years as president, Obama has nullified laws, created laws, delayed the implementation of laws, and issued exemptions from and waivers to laws, much of which has been accomplished through executive branch rule making. ~ Mark R Levin,
925:I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered. ~ Margaret Sanger,
926:If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn. ~ Ethan Hawke,
927:In total, four hundred thousand books in Central Library were destroyed in the fire. An additional seven hundred thousand were badly damaged by either smoke or water or, in many cases, both. The number of books destroyed or spoiled was equal to the entirety of fifteen typical branch libraries. It was the greatest loss to any public library in the history of the United States. ~ Susan Orlean,
928:Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation of the parent; since a part of the embryon-animal is, or was, a part of the parent; and therefore in strict language it cannot be said to be entirely new at the time of its production; and therefore it may retain some of the habits of the parent-system. (1794) ~ Erasmus Darwin,
929:We are all born as animals and live the life that animals live: we sleep, eat, reproduce, and fight. There is, however, another order of living, which the animals do not know, that of awe before the mystery of being ... that can be the root and branch of the spiritual sense of one’s days. That is the birth - the Virgin Birth - in the heart of a properly human, spiritual life. ~ Joseph Campbell,
930:No child under the age of fifteen should receive instruction in subjects which may possibly be the vehicle of serious error, such as philosophy, religion, or any other branch of knowledge where it is necessary to take large views; because wrong notions imbibed early can seldom be rooted out, and of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to arrive at maturity. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,
931:The Pickwickians had no sooner dismounted than they were surrounded by a branch mob of the honest and independent, who forthwith set up three deafening cheers, which being responded to by the main body (for it’s not at all necessary for a crowd to know what they are cheering about), swelled into a tremendous roar of triumph, which stopped even the red-faced man in the balcony. ~ Charles Dickens,
932:This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year nor Next Year am I to have the ability and wisdom to light the lamp on my own. Although one branch of childhood is in this fashion lopped for all time, the rest of it still inhabits the body of a child which occupies itself in childish matters. ~ Hal Porter,
933:A few college students readjusted their backpacks over their shoulders as they left the building, and Jade’s eyes followed two brunettes making their way across the lawn. Distracted for the moment, he almost walked into a tree, but was given a heads-up by a branch that knocked his sunglasses crooked. After putting them back in place, he glanced around to see if anyone had noticed. ~ Gregg Hurwitz,
934:Every sixty seconds, thirty acres of rain forest are destroyed in order to raise beef for fast-food restaurants that sell it to people, giving them strokes and heart attacks, which raise medical costs and insurance rates, providing insurance companies with more money to invest in large corporations that branch out further into the Third World so they can destroy more rain forests. ~ George Carlin,
935:These words of Sullenberger are worth reflecting upon because they offer the chance to radically reimagine failure. The idea that the successful safety record in aviation has emerged from the rubble of real-world accidents is vivid, paradoxical, and profound. It is also revelatory. For if one looks closely enough it is an insight echoed across almost every branch of human endeavor. ~ Matthew Syed,
936:Every sixty seconds, thirty acres of rain forest are destroyed in order to raise beef for fast-food restaurants that sell it to people, giving them strokes and heart attacks, which raise medical costs and insurance rates, providing insurance companies with more money to invest in large corporations that branch out further into the Third World so they can destroy more rain forests. ~ George Carlin,
937:I can’t believe Bourbon & Branch would work with them”. Them being Phluttr - makers of the sketchy app that just hijacked their conversation. Ostensibly a social network, Phluttr peppers its users with coupons, recommendations, breaking news, handy info, and jaw-dropping bits of hyperlocal gossip, all of it surgically targeted to the user’s interests, location, and/or state of mind. ~ Rob Reid,
938:My voice is my gift. And Pops had me using it in the right way. I had many offers to sing pop, to sing rhythm and blues. Pops said "Mavis, this record company want to give you a million dollars." I said, "No daddy, I want to sing with the family." And I did. I never wanted to branch out by myself. But I've had to now. It's my mission. I've been left here to do it. And I'm grateful. ~ Mavis Staples,
939:The branch of *Protestantism associated with the Church of England, beginning with Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy (1534), which officially launched the *English Reformation. During the reign of Elizabeth I, ministers such as John Jewel and Richard Hooker wrote important defenses of the Church of England, forging a middle way between Catholicism and the continental Reformation. Through ~ Kelly M Kapic,
940:The programs and planning are buried inside innocuous-sounding entities like the Pentagon’s Center for National and Nuclear Leadership Command Capability, FEMA’s Special Programs Division, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Balanced Survivability Assessment branch, or the Joint System Engineering and Integration Office (JSEIO) at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). To ~ Garrett M Graff,
941:We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke! ~ Henry David Thoreau,
942:jack laughed at my attempts to avoid being felt up by a mythical beast. "Apparently you're a virgin."
"Shut up!Like that's any of your business!"
He shrugged,the motion less effective upside down."Unicorns love maidens. Haven't you done any research at all?"
"What,you have?"
He flipped off the branch,startling the unicorn so badly it bolted from the meadow. Thank heavens. ~ Kiersten White,
943:The United States Constitution builds politics right into the process of selecting federal judges. This third branch, the judiciary, is designed to have a longer view. To have individuals who are more insulated from politics. They're not elected directly. They're appointed for life. So, politics enters, but it's also, controlled. And if you bypass this process, I'm not sure what we do. ~ Martha Minow,
944:Perhaps he just didn't have the feeling for faith. It seemed to be a kind of language, one whose gnarled syntax needed to be heard from birth, or it remained forever unintelligible. But he wished he had a faith now, some scrap for something: for elphaba was dead, and to act as if the world were no more changed than if some branch of a tree had snapped off- well, it didn't seem right. ~ Gregory Maguire,
945:She never expected gross perfidy from the meek and mild.” Mathilde saw her own face reflected in the window, but no, it was a barn owl on a low branch in the cherry trees. She could barely master herself. She had never expected this. These women. Such kindness. Their eyes shining in the dim room. They saw her. She didn’t know why, but they saw her and they loved her even still. “There’s ~ Lauren Groff,
946:Half-smile when you first wake up in the morning Hang a branch, any other sign, or even the word “smile” on the ceiling or wall so that you see it right away when you open your eyes. This sign will serve as your reminder. Use these seconds before you get out of bed to take hold of your breath. Inhale and exhale three breaths gently while maintaining the half smile. Follow your breaths. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
947:Jesus said, “I am the vine; you are the branches.”3 All you gotta do is let the life that flows through the vine, flow into the branch—you. You don’t have to do anything. You’ve just got to get out of the way and stop doing all the things that keep God from doing what He wants to do in your life. What Paul means by “walk by the Spirit” is essentially “live in dependence on God’s Spirit. ~ James MacDonald,
948:Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted chorus line dancing with the moon, the wind, the clouds framing bursts of stars tender rugged celebration absorbing and releasing life each holy branch holding the power of the Universe. There. ~ Wallace Stevens,
949:He reached under the bench to retrieve his crutch. His father had carved the crutch from the branch of a fallen wych elm on the farm back home. It was strong and thick and had just enough spring to be comfortable when he walked. Da named it 'Courage,' saying that all good tools deserved a good title. Kip had always liked the idea that courage was a thing a person could hold on to and use. ~ Jonathan Auxier,
950:Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family in the original tree, you would see the primate parents yelling at the primate teenager for sitting around and sulking all day instead of hunting for grubs and berries like dad primate. Then you'd see the primate teenager stomp up to his branch and slam the leaves. ~ Dave Barry,
951:Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger. ~ James Gunn,
952:Have you ever looked at the bud of a magnolia flower? It’s a tight little pod that stays closed up for a long time on the end of its branch until one day, out of nowhere, it finally bursts open into this gigantic, gorgeous, fragrant flower that’s ten times bigger than the bud itself. It’s impossible to imagine that such a big beautiful thing could pop out of that tiny little bud. But it does. ~ Joanna Gaines,
953:I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two." Halt raised his eyebrows. "I assume you're not talking about your head," he muttered. Erak frowned at the suggestion. Of course not," he replied. More's the pity," Halt told him. ~ John Flanagan,
954:[President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to power, to status, to money, to position, to each other, you're going to ruffle a lot of feathers. ~ Kellyanne Conway,
955:We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind — mass-merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the pre-empting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. ~ J G Ballard,
956:When the Root and Branch were young, when the Rose still grew unplucked upon the tree; when all our lands were new and green and we danced without care, then, we were immortal... We left those lands for the world where time dwells, dancing, that we might see the passage of the sun and the growing of the world. Here we may die, and where we can fall, and here King   has stopped his dancing. ~ Seanan McGuire,
957:You know how depression hits?' She takes another drag and blows the smoke out slowly. 'It's like an avalanche. No warning. You're just knocked off your feet. You reach for a ledge . . . no ledge. You reach for a branch . . . no branch. You just keep falling. When you hit the bottom, everything around you settles like concrete. You're up to your neck and you can't move. All you can do is wait. ~ Natasha Friend,
958:Jesus went on, "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit" (v. 2). This verse sets forth a major emphasis on the relationship of the believer to Christ. Jesus' exhortation throughout this portion of His discourse is that, as Christians, as His disciples, we are to be fruitful. That is, we are to be productive. ~ R C Sproul,
959:Something dropped on her shoulder, but even as she screamed, her heart stopping midbeat, the next oncoming branch swept the tarantula away.
Aww! Ick!
She manically brushed her shoulder with her free hand, every inch of her covered in goose bumps.
"When running from people who're trying to kill you," Walker advised as he kept dragging her, "it's better to stay quiet. Generally speaking. ~ Dana Marton,
960:The pale pink light of dawn sparkled on branch and leaf and stone. Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond. Flowers and mushrooms alike wore coats of glass. Even the mud puddles had a bright brown sheen. Through the shimmering greenery, the black tents of his brothers were encased in a fine glaze of ice. So there is magic beyond the Wall after all. ~ George R R Martin,
961:In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others. In the almost unfathomable Ts'ui Pen, he chooses - simultaneously - all of them. He thus creates various futures, various times which start others that will in their turn branch out and bifurcate in other times. That is the cause of the contradictions in the novel." ~ Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden Of Forking Paths,
962:My Crow A crow flew into the tree outside my window. It was not Ted Hughes’s crow, or Galway’s crow. Or Frost’s, Pasternak’s, or Lorca’s crow. Or one of Homer’s crows, stuffed with gore, after the battle. This was just a crow. That never fit in anywhere in its life, or did anything worth mentioning. It sat there on the branch for a few minutes. Then picked up and flew beautifully out of my life. ~ Raymond Carver,
963:Theoretical physics is the deepest and purest branch of science. It is the outpost of science closest to philosophy, and religion. Experimental scientists occupy themselves with observing and measuring the cosmos, finding out what stuff exists, no matter how strange that stuff may be. Theoretical physicists, on the other hand, are not satisfied with observing the universe. They want to know why . ~ Alan Lightman,
964:We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe. ~ Rudolf Steiner,
965:Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea,
but in people above all.
Love clouds, machines, and books,
but people above all.
Grieve
for the withering branch,
the dying star,
and the hurt animal,
but feel for people above all.
Rejoice in all the earth's blessings-
darkness and light,
the four seasons,
but people above all.

- Last Letter to my Son ~ N z m Hikmet Ran,
966:The Jardin Massey looked dismal today, rain lashed and deserted. She watched a bedraggled pigeon, feathers puffed out, sheltering beneath a branch.She'd never made a will, never considered whether she'd rather her body was buried or burnt to grey powder. And where would she want to be buried - in a French graveyard, gaudy with plastic flowers? If she made a will, could she state an aversion to plastic? ~ Jackie Ley,
967:If you're intent on making a path through the woods and you come to a tree that's in the way, the tree has to go or the path has to change course. You keep making those choices until you have your path. After the thing was done , I realized, You just do it~that's how you do it. You have to figure it out.
'There ain't no rules around here,' said Thomas Edison, 'We're Trying To Accomplish Something. ~ Susan Branch,
968:He’d let his anger take him to a place that his ass might have trouble getting out of, or maybe I just didn’t understand the normal branch of the service whose badge I carried. She put her elbows on the arms of her chair, her hands like a double fist in front of her lips. “Second, get the fuck off my desk.” Oh, I did understand the normal branch of the service. It worked just like all the others. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,
969:I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID. ~ Khaled Hosseini,
970:I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind. ~ Alexander Pushkin,
971:The problem with the British film industry is that it's really the American film industry, or a small branch of in lots of ways because of the common language. But it's great to see some individual voices still there. I think I probably gravitate towards a slightly more European, auteur model rather than the studio thing. I think it would be great if British films were a little bit more auteur driven. ~ David Mackenzie,
972:I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged.
I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was busy watching the ground, I hit that branch with my head. Broke it clean in two."
Halt raised his eyebrows. "I assume you're not talking about your head," he muttered. Erak frowned at the suggestion.
Of course not," he replied.
More's the pity," Halt told him. ~ John Flanagan,
973:Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment. ~ George Gissing,
974:Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others--the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it yields to the majority of its possessors the poorest return in heart's contentment. ~ George Gissing,
975:Hearken to the voice of my supplications,” is rendered by the apostle Paul ἱκετηρίας, Heb. v. 7; in which place alone in the Scripture that word is used. Originally it signifies a bough or olive-branch wrapped about with wool or bays, or something of the like nature, which those carried in their hands and lifted up who were suppliants unto others for the obtaining of peace or the averting of their displeasure. ~ John Owen,
976:Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon its branch. A single petal was torn away by the wind. Pushing my hands through the thorns, I felt lashes of pain across my skin, but i kept going determined.
But when my fingertip touched the flower, it instantly darkened, withering and drying as each petal turned black. ~ Claudia Gray,
977:We don't know how to say goodbye,
We wander on, shoulder to shoulder
Already the sun is going down
You're moody, and I am your shadow.
Let's step inside a church, hear prayers, masses for the dead
Why are we so different from the rest?
Outside in the graveyard we sit on a frozen branch.

That stick in your hand is tracing
Mansions in the snow in which we will always be together. ~ Anna Akhmatova,
978:when a branch of psychology, sometimes called performance psychology, began to systematically explore what separates experts (in many different fields) from everyone else. In the early 1990s, K. Anders Ericsson, a professor at Florida State University, pulled together these strands into a single coherent answer, consistent with the growing research literature, that he gave a punchy name: deliberate practice. ~ Cal Newport,
979:For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. ~ Alan Watts,
980:God wants to be as close to us as a branch is to a vine. One is an extension of the other. It’s impossible to tell where one starts and the other ends. The branch isn’t connected only at the moment of bearing fruit. The gardener doesn’t keep the branches in a box and then, on the day he wants grapes, glue them to the vine. No, the branch constantly draws nutrition from the vine. Separation means certain death. ~ Max Lucado,
981:I wanted to see Maya. I wanted to make sure she was coming over for dinner.”
“I haven’t invited her yet.”
Annie grabbed our branch.
“Whoa, no!” Rafe said as it dipped. “She can’t come over if she falls and breaks both her legs.”
“She won’t do that, silly. She’ll land on her feet. Just like me.”
“Rather not test that theory,” he said and leaned over me to unwrap her fingers from the branch. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
982:In this way I have sat in many rooms and walked in many gardens, and it has been as though I were a stick of furniture or a branch of a tree. I seem to have caused no sense of restraint or embarrassment. People have been able to talk freely in front of me, almost as freely as though I weren’t there. I suppose some might think this a great compliment; it has given me a curious feeling of nonexistence. Now ~ Madeleine L Engle,
983:When we killed - or exiled - God we also killed ourselves. Did we notice sufficiently at the time? No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary friend of ours. And we weren't going to get an afterlife anyway. But we sawed off the branch we were sitting on. And the view from there, from that height - even if it was only the illusion of a view - wasn't so bad. ~ Julian Barnes,
984:A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin. ~ Branch Rickey,
985:Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men. ~ John Calvin,
986:The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From the depths of the tragedy I want to save two million young people...The old ones will pass. They will bear their fate or they will not. They were dust, economic and moral dust in a cruel world...Only the branch of the young shall survive...They have to accept it. ~ Chaim Weizmann,
987:Homosexuals now pervade and control American government at every level and branch. Thus, only those churches that support and promote the militant homosexual agenda enjoy religious freedom. Any church in America that dares to preach what the Bible says about soul-damning, nation-destroying moral filth of the vile homosexual beasts among us, loses all Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and speech rights. ~ Fred Phelps,
988:If you're intent on making a path through the woods and you come to a tree that's in the way, the tree has to go or the path has to change course. You keep making those choices until you have your path. After the thing was done , I realized, You just do it~ Susan Branchthat's how you do it. You have to figure it out.
'There ain't no rules around here,' said Thomas Edison, 'We're Trying To Accomplish Something. ~ Susan Branch,
989:It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually. ~ Leonardo da Vinci,
990:Customs Internal Affairs knew everything I knew about Thornburgh, Bush, Noriega, Jose Busto, Jimmy Buffet, the Caribbean branch of CIA drug ops, the arming of Nicaragua’s Contras, and the destabilization of the Middle East through the arming of Afghanistan and Iraq. Mark and I knew we had strong support, and friends as dedicated as we are to dismantling the criminal corruption that was eroding the soul of America. ~ Cathy O Brien,
991:When we killed – or exiled – God, we also killed ourselves. Did we notice that sufficiently at the time? No God, no afterlife, no us. We were right to kill Him, of course, this long-standing imaginary friend of ours. And we weren’t going to get an afterlife anyway. But we sawed off the branch we were sitting on. And the view from there, from that height – even if it was only the illusion of a view – wasn’t so bad. ~ Julian Barnes,
992:Every branch of science likes to think it’s important, and of course, they all are. But they’re specializations. Much of biology, for example, is biochemistry, which is a specialization of organic chemistry, which is a specialization of chemistry, which is a specialization of physics, and physics is practical mathematics. No matter which set of matryoshka dolls you open in science, the innermost is always math. ~ Jonathan L Howard,
993:He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again. ~ Patrick O Brian,
994:If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house. ~ Thomas Friedman,
995:The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash! ~ Alan Watts,
996:The State of the Union has become, under presidents of both parties, a political pep rally degrading to everyone. The judiciary and uniformed military should never attend. And Congress, by hosting a spectacle so monarchical in structure (which is why Thomas Jefferson sent his thoughts to Congress in writing) deepens the diminishment of the legislative branch as a mostly reactive servant of an overbearing executive. ~ George F Will,
997:We ask the leaf, "Are you complete in yourself?" And the leaf answers, "No, my life is in the branches." We ask the branch, and the branch answers, "No my life is in the root." We ask the root, and it answers, "No my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves, and I shall die," So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick,
998:Branch is stuck all right. He has abandoned his life to understanding that moment in Dallas, the seven seconds that broke the back of the American century. [...] There is also the Warren Report, of course, with its twenty-six accompanying volumes of testimony and exhibits, its millions of words. Branch thinks this is the megaton novel James Joyce would have written if he'd moved to Iowa City and lived to be a hundred. ~ Don DeLillo,
999:I have fashion designers that I definitely respect. After working for a few years in the industry, you want to branch out and do your own thing and I think that's something that has always been important to me is strengthening the brand and just sticking to "this is who we are, this is our identity, this is who we're going to be". I definitely respect other designers but I don't necessarily have one that I look up to. ~ Lauren Conrad,
1000:It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice against attempts to introduce the methods and language of mathematics into any branch of the moral sciences. Most persons appear to hold that the physical sciences form the proper sphere of mathematical method, and that the moral sciences demand some other method-I know not what. ~ William Stanley Jevons,
1001:Can one truly get closer to God? Has Christ only brought us part way? Consider the analogy of a vine and a branch. It is impossible for a branch to grow any closer to the vine than it already is. The two are physically connected. There is no breach that is progressively being filled. Now, does the branch continue to grow? Yes! It even flourishes, buds and bears fruit. But is it growing toward union, or because of union? ~ John Crowder,
1002:How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate. ~ John Burroughs,
1003:I ask a flower, “How is it you are so wise so young?”
“With the first morning wind and
the first dew, I lost my innocence.”
I follow the one who showed me the way.
I extend one hand up, and with the other I touch the ground.
A great branch leans down from the sky.
How long will I keep talking of up and down?
This is not my home:
silence, annihilation, absence!
I go back where everything is nothing. ~ Rumi,
1004:THE GIRLS: ...He dowses with his hands, rather than a rod. The phallus would defile the process. Men have wagged their rods at the Earth plenty.
JIMMER: The kids call them vision quests. I call it listening. He uses his hands because he can't find branches. When was the last time you saw a tree?
DALLAS: For Levi, using a tree branch to find a river would be like using a severed arm to find a shallow grave. ~ Claire Vaye Watkins,
1005:I allow myself to be right here, in the moment, savouring the peace. All the millions and millions of stars remind me, too, how small and fragile I am. And unimportant, really. If this branch were to creak and moan and break under my weight, and I were to plummet to the ground, the stars in the sky would continue to decorate the world. And even if the last tree disappears from our planet, the stars will still be up there. ~ Sarah Crossan,
1006:It were much to be desired, that when mathematical processes pass through the human brain instead of through the medium of inanimate mechanism, it were equally a necessity of things that the reasonings connected with operations should hold the same just place as a clear and well-defined branch of the subject of analysis, a fundamental but yet independent ingredient in the science, which they must do in studying the engine. ~ Ada Lovelace,
1007:Quantum Machine Learning is defined as the branch of science and technology that is concerned with the application of quantum mechanical phenomena such as superposition, entanglement and tunneling for designing software and hardware to provide machines the ability to learn insights and patterns from data and the environment, and the ability to adapt automatically to changing situations with high precision, accuracy and speed.  ~ Amit Ray,
1008:Flash fire."
She turned her head as far as she could, trying to look at him. "I don't know what that means."
He shifted on the branch. "First time I was on a submarine, we had a flash fire. It's a combustion explosion. A flammable mist builds up in the air, then suddenly, bam. Think super high temperatures and a rapidly moving flame front. It kills by asphyxiation. Burns up all the available oxygen. It's devastating. ~ Dana Marton,
1009:The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice. ~ Richard Shusterman,
1010:In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic. ~ Karl Marx,
1011:There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of Tlön seek not truth, or even plausibility - they seek to amaze, astound. In their view, metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy. They know a system is naught but the subordination of all the aspects of the universe to one of those aspects - any one of them. ~ Jorge Luis Borges,
1012:Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books. ~ Diana Wynne Jones,
1013:Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
1014:We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. ~ J G Ballard,
1015:Even in small matters, we can say, our intellect is not resolute. It will be resolute only if we fix our minds on one purpose and cling to it with discrimination, only if we work without looking for immediate results. At present, whether in politics or social reform we leap from one branch to another. I began with the illustration of a ball of earth and told you that, even if we concentrate on that, we can realise the atman. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
1016:If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a room and you're engaging with imaginary strangers because you don't actually know who they are. For me, it was really empowering to say: this is a branch of entertainment and communication and engagement, as opposed to jumping over some perceived literary high bar. That was the buzzkill. ~ George Saunders,
1017:I want to trust you that completely, her heart prayed, for she knew she didn't. She was a clinger, not a leaper. Once she found a safe branch, she grabbed on and held tight with every once of strength she had, terrified that if she let go, she'd plummet back to where she'd come from. She wanted to leap forward in faith, but her claws were to embedded. Something would have to shake her loose. And that prospect terrified her. ~ Karen Witemeyer,
1018:For every individual is a unique
manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching
of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a
sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and
differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole
body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that
differentiation is not separation. ~ Alan W Watts,
1019:Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies, and no death could resemble the man he was thinking about less than this one. But it was he, although it seemed absurd: the oldest and best qualified doctor in the city, and one of its illustrious men for many other meritorious reasons, had died of a broken spine, at the age of eighty-one, when he fell from the branch of a mango tree as he tried to catch a parrot. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
1020:Play that cosmic tape backward, and everything converges down to a point about 13.7 billion years ago. That’s the Big Bang. The light from some of these most distant objects has been traveling through space for more than 13 billion years. The data on this point are unassailable. Any claim that Earth’s age is ten thousand years or less defies the overwhelming and unambiguous observational evidence from every branch of science. ~ Robert M Hazen,
1021:That was what Sam was: transient. A summer leaf clinging to a frozen branch for as long as possible.

“You’re beautiful and sad,” I said finally, not looking at him when I did. “Just like your eyes. You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”

For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, “Thank you. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
1022:There are roughly 100 of these food sharing sites in Germany. About 50 have refrigerators, and the rest are just shelves. They are a small, offline branch of Foodsharing.de, a two-year-old Internet platform that gives members a chance to connect with other food sharers online, should they find themselves in possession of an extra cabbage or, as one Foodsharing post put it, “too many delicious organic potatoes for one person to eat. ~ Anonymous,
1023:to start anew from Christ means being close to him, being close to Jesus. Jesus stresses the importance of this with the disciples at the Last Supper, as he prepares to give us his own greatest gift of love, his sacrifice on the cross. Jesus uses the image of the vine and the branches and says, Abide in my love, remain attached to me, as the branch is attached to the vine. If we are joined to him, then we are able to bear fruit. ~ Pope Francis,
1024:Walter told me that it was working from morning until night, being outdoors, that made him feel normal again. Then one afternoon, tragedy struck. He was cutting a tree when a branch dislodged and struck him, breaking his neck. It was a serious injury that left Walter in very poor condition for several weeks. He didn't have a lot of care available, so he came to live with me in Montgomery for several months until he recovered. ~ Bryan Stevenson,
1025:My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind: Jamie scrambling intent and surefooted up to a high branch, Peter's laugh arcing out of the trompe-l'oeil dazzle of green ahead. Through some slow sea change they had become children out of a haunting storybook, bright myths from a lost civilization; it was hard to believe they had once been real and my friends. ~ Tana French,
1026:Thanks to you, the leaders of the University branch—Masters Greenleaf and Smith—are safely out of harm’s way. As to the Northern branch—well, my agent currently describes it as an association of young men, young and unmarried, who gather in the woods from time to time to celebrate elaborate rituals that draw equally from local folklore and a youthful taste for mysticism and indiscriminate copulation. We’re watching them closely. ~ Ellen Kushner,
1027:You’ve seen a herd of goats
going down to the water.

The lame and dreamy goat
brings up the rear.

They are worried faces about that one,
but now they’re laughing,

because look, as they return,
the goat is leading!

They are many different kind of knowing.
The lame goat’s kind is a branch
that traces back to the roots of presence.

Learn from the lame goat,
and lead the herd back home. ~ Rumi,
1028:In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time. ~ Marcus Dunstan,
1029:The tree outside Skye’s bedroom had grown taller; the branch he’d used to climb in was now scraping the roof. Damian tilted his head back, following it, and saw a pair of brown legs dangling through the leaves. It was the nut-busting girl, with her scuffed-up, nut-busting shoes. She was leaning against the trunk, reading a book, unaware of being observed. Damian instinctively cupped his balls. What the fuck was she doing back here? ~ Leylah Attar,
1030:I really loved the story. I originally read for Walt Longmire. He is obviously a very dynamic, strong, manly man that almost any dude would want to play. Once I got in the room and met with everybody, the feedback came back that they loved me, but that I didn't have the age. And then, they brought up the idea of Branch, who wasn't that interesting on the page in the pilot, but once they explained the vision, I really bought into it. ~ Bailey Chase,
1031:Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda,
1032:After Dickinson and Adams had it out over the Olive Branch Petition, Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that he and Dickinson “are not to be on speaking terms.” How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheers me up? If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along? ~ Sarah Vowell,
1033:Tampa was a city with a perpetual inferiority complex. For a while, the local flacks had called it America's Next Great City. Then somebody had stumbled over the comedy of that title. Tampa had the Bucs, and that was good. Tampa had hockey, the Lightning, but hockey was a B sport in the South and always would be. Tampa had great seafood, its own branch of Cosa Nostra, too many malls, the world's best airport, and lately, Ybor City. ~ Sterling Watson,
1034:Let's worry like mad. Shall we start on a worldwide basis and work down to ourselves, or start with ourselves and spread?"

"I'm going to do me-and-Peter and that dead man."

"All right. I'm just going to do a wee one about Bunny and then I'll join you. Always creeping around telling tales and stealing people's tights! How can anyone be that scrofulous and live? Now if somebody bumped him off, that would make sense. ~ Pamela Branch,
1035:the Branch Davidians’ theology is not so different from that of a large fraction of Americans. We call Koresh a “cult leader,” which allows us to file him away reassuringly as a one-off nut, like Charles Manson or Jim Jones. But it’s important to recognize that his church was a long-standing subgroup of a 150-year-old Protestant denomination that is one of the twenty largest churches in America, with six thousand U.S. congregations.*1 ~ Kurt Andersen,
1036:Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Christian faith. That person becomes a branch that is torn from the tree and shrivels, an organ that is separated from the body and therefore doomed to die. Only within the communion of the saints can the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of Christ be comprehended. ~ Herman Bavinck,
1037:The Man has a branch office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit. We do know what's going on, and we let it go on. As long as we can see them, stare at them, those massively moneyed, once in a while. As long as they allow us a glimpse, however rarely. We need that. And they know it - how often, under what conditions... ~ Thomas Pynchon,
1038:For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives but also in everything that does not live, drawn in sand, stone, and water. And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,
1039:Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . . ~ Ayn Rand,
1040:We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures. ~ John Adams,
1041:This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. It is the duty of all living things to produce some truly constructive labor as recognition of the divine life which is within them. God is most glorified when His children glorify His spirit within themselves. ~ Manly Hall,
1042:But at the next flare a big tree on the hill seemed to turn into fire before their eyes, every branch, twig, and leaf, and a purple cloud hung over it.

'Did you hear that crack?' asked Robbie Bell. 'That were its bones.'

'Why do you little niggers talk so much!' said Doc. 'Nobody’s profiting by this information.'

'We always talks this much,' said Sam, 'but now everybody so quiet, they hears us.'

("The Wide Net") ~ Eudora Welty,
1043:Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year. ~ Homer,
1044:must necessarily be small; and those employed in every different branch of the work can often be collected into the same workhouse, and placed at once under the view of the spectator. In those great manufactures, on the contrary, which are destined to supply the great wants of the great body of the people, every different branch of the work employs so great a number of workmen that it is impossible to collect them all into the same workhouse ~ Adam Smith,
1045:The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact. ~ Antoine Lavoisier,
1046:There’s one looming danger, though: the stalk of the gallbladder is a branch off the liver’s only conduit for sending bile to the intestines for the digestion of fats. And if you accidentally injure this main bile duct, the bile backs up and starts to destroy the liver. Between 10 and 20 percent of the patients to whom this happens will die. Those who survive often have permanent liver damage and can go on to require liver transplantation. ~ Atul Gawande,
1047:If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it." It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives. ~ John Amos Comenius,
1048:Oh, goodie,” said Grimalkin, rising from the branch. “And now we have picked up the dog. I will inform the Iron Queen of your imminent arrival, and to prepare for the smell.”

He waved his tail once and was gone. Razor bared his teeth in the direction the cat had been and hissed. “Evil, bad kitty,” the gremlin muttered. “Tie rock to tail and throw in lake, ha!”

The Wolf chuckled in approval. “At least one of you has good taste. ~ Julie Kagawa,
1049:there is little in the world of French Decadence of the late nineteenth century that can be seen as furthering the philosophical aims of left-hand-path philosophies. Because they tended to hang onto medieval imagery—conditioned by their thoroughly Catholic cultural milieu—the French Satanists (of fact and fiction) actually seem to have retarded the renewal of the philosophy of the transcendental branch of the left-hand path in the West. ~ Stephen E Flowers,
1050:I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively little supervision and one place I visited frequently was the local library. This particular branch was little more than a storefront but to me it was an alternative universe where I could explore my interests and receive kind, informative answers to my questions from the wonderful librarians. ~ Jonathan Kellerman,
1051:She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. ~ Zora Neale Hurston,
1052:about her in a long conversation with Professor Stumph, the learned geologist. Rose did not care, for one dance proved to her that that branch of Mac's education had been sadly neglected, and she was glad to glide smoothly about with Steve, though he was only an inch or two taller than herself. She had plenty of partners, however, and plenty of chaperons, for all the young men were her most devoted, and all the matrons beamed upon her with ~ Louisa May Alcott,
1053:In the first essay, Hamilton dealt with the objection that only Congress could issue a neutrality proclamation, since it alone had the power to declare war. Hamilton pointed out that if “the legislature have a right to make war, on the one hand, it is, on the other, the duty of the executive to preserve peace till war is declared.”50 Once again, Hamilton broadened the authority of the executive branch in diplomacy, especially during emergencies. ~ Ron Chernow,
1054:I've lived to bury my desires
and see my dreams corrode with rust
now all that's left are fruitless fires
that burn my empty heart to dust.

Struck by the clouds of cruel fate
My crown of Summer bloom is sere
Alone and sad, I watch and wait
And wonder if the end is near.

As conquered by the last cold air
When Winter whistles in the wind
Alone upon a branch that's bare
A trembling leaf is left behind. ~ Alexander Pushkin,
1055: "It's me," whispered a familiar voice.
"Der—"
Thwack. He stumbled, Liz behind him, a sturdy branch raised.
"Liz, it's—"
She hit him again, a home-run swing between the shoulders, and he went down with an oomph and an oath. She recognized the voice—or the curse—and leaned over, getting a look at him.
(Liz) "Whoops."
(Simon) "I'd say he deserved that, always sneaking up on people." ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1056:The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. ~ William Faulkner,
1057:It's hard to imagine talking to Lucy. But I can imagine sleeping with her. I have been imagining it quite regularly. I can't stop imagining it. Maybe it's time for my first Lucy Branch, my first truly physical relationship. And why do I assume it would be a bad thing? Maybe it's better with someone different from you. I could teach her how fluorocarbons affect the ozone. She could teach me about oral sex.

We would both become better people. ~ Blake Nelson,
1058:The American Revolution was a successful revolution precisely because it was grounded in both realism and idealism. Written deep into the structure of our Constitution is a profound comfort with contradiction. It sets faction against faction, pits each branch of government against the other, dilutes the excesses of democracy, and holds the executive accountable to the people. By being so grounded in realism, it can hold the weight of our ideals. ~ Jonah Goldberg,
1059:But this left a very large question mark: Who was Chutsky, in fact, and how did I get his help? Did I need some cunning stratagem to bend him to my will, or would I have to resort to some form of the unprecedented uncomfortable unspeakable truth? The very thought of committing honesty made me tremble in every leaf and branch—it went against everything I had ever stood for. But there seemed no way out; I would have to be at least marginally truthful. ~ Jeff Lindsay,
1060:No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. ~ John Ruskin,
1061:Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children. ~ Dave Kopel,
1062:In 1814 the breeders founded an organization, the title of which was—deep breath—“The Association of Friends, Experts and Supporters of Sheep Breeding for the achievement of a more rapid and more thoroughgoing advancement of this branch of the economy and the manufacturing and commercial aspects of the wool industry that is based upon it.” Those who didn’t want to lose too much oxygen uttering the full name simply called it the Sheep Breeders’ Society. ~ Carl Zimmer,
1063:It is naïve to suppose that the acceptance of evolution theory depends upon the evidence of a number of so-called "proofs"; it depends rather upon the fact that the evolutionary theory permeates and supports every branch of biological science, much as the notion of the roundness of the earth underlies all geodesy and all cosmological theories on which the shape of the earth has a bearing. Thus antievolutionism is of the same stature as flat-earthism. ~ Peter Medawar,
1064:The report made a science fiction-like case that the president was within his constitutional rights to reinterpret congressional legislation to conform more closely to his own desires, or to simply refuse to carry out laws with which he did not agree, or that, the report harrumphed, “unconstitutionally encroach on the executive branch.” In sum, anything the president doesn’t want to do he doesn’t have to do; anything he wants to do, consider it done. ~ Rachel Maddow,
1065:Those days when Conor MacNessa sat on the throne of Ulster were brilliant days in Ireland’s history. Then was the sun of glory in the zenith of Eire’s Heroic period — the period of chivalry, chiefly created by the famous Royal or Red Branch Knights of Emania. Though, two other famous bands of Irish warriors gave added lustre to the period — the Gamanraide of the West (who were Firbolgs), and the Clanna Deaghaid of Munster led by Curoi MacDaire. All ~ Seumas MacManus,
1066:Words are the shadow of reality, a mere branch of reality. Since the shadow draws, how much more the reality!
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. If someone should see a hundred thousand miracles and divine blessings, still, without an inner connection to that saint or prophet who was the source of those miracles, all these phenomena would come to nothing. It is this inward element that draws and moves us. ~ Rumi,
1067:If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye? ~ Lisa See,
1068:Tapping a little bell, I leaned on the desk and turned to look at a small, traditionally decorated Christmas tree on a table near the entranceway. It was complete with shiny, egg-fragile bulbs; miniature candy canes; flat, laughing Santas with arms wide; a star on top nodding awkwardly against the delicate shoulder of an upper branch; and colored lights that bloomed out of flower-shaped sockets. For some reason this seemed to me a sorry little piece. ~ Thomas Ligotti,
1069:This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west. ~ W E B Du Bois,
1070:Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude. Where the musty smell of books greets me like the perfume in our grandmother’s embrace. My old branch was two blocks from our London flat, and I went almost daily. The librarian and I both got teary when I said goodbye. And this library is almost as close! I’ll get a library card tomorrow and carry back my first installment of books. Maybe I can also find a quiet corner to write in peace. ~ Mitali Perkins,
1071:The Now is also central to the teaching of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam. Sufis have a saying: “The Sufi is the son of time present.” And Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: “Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.” Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century spiritual teacher, summed it all up beautifully: “Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
1072:Maybe, someday, some other kid is going to be standing here, staring out at the trees, feeling alone, wondering if maybe the world might look different from all the way up there. Better. Maybe he’ll start climbing, one branch at a time, and he’ll keep going, even when it seems like he can’t find another foothold. Even when it feels hopeless. Like everything is telling him to let go. Maybe this time he won’t let go. This time he’ll hold on. He’ll keep going. ~ Val Emmich,
1073:The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another—or others—always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch. ~ James Baldwin,
1074:When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I was a convinced atheist. I never in my wildest dreams imagined that one day I would be writing a book purporting to show that the central claims of Judeo-Christian theology are in fact true, that these claims are straightforward deductions of the laws of physics as we now understand them. I have been forced into these conclusions by the inexorable logic of my own special branch of physics. ~ Frank J Tipler,
1075:Aethiopica by Heliodorus of Emesa. And now is she my daughter with me here, my daughter I say, named by my name, and on her all my hopes depend. And beside other things, wherein she is better than I could wish, she has quickly learned the Greek tongue and has come to perfect age with such speed as if she had been a peerless branch, and so far doth she surpass every other in excellent beauty that all men’s eyes, as well strangers as Greeks, are set on her. ~ Bernard Minier,
1076:Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch
Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall
Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Or if the secret ministry of frost
Shall hang them up in silent icicles,
Quietly shining to the quiet Moon. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
1077:The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the legislature. [If a president is successful in bypassing the Congress] it is evident that the people are cheated out of the best ingredients in the government, the safeguards of peace which is the greatest of their blessings. ~ Richard M Nixon,
1078:The next poem will be pulled
from the moonlight.
It will be a falling star
It will be a burning branch.

The next poem will climb
down from the mango tree
while I'm dreaming and
sneak away before I wake.

The next poem I will plant
beneath my own skin.
I will walk in the rain
and allow her to bloom.

The next poem I won't
even write.
It will descend with the sun,
it will be a walk home
next to my shadow. ~ Pavana,
1079:Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see that yawning precipice? It leads to liberty. You see that flood, that river, that well? Liberty houses within them. You see that stunted, parched, and sorry tree? From each branch liberty hangs. Your neck, your throat, your heart are all so many ways of escape from slavery [...] Do you enquire the road to freedom? You shall find it in every vein of your body. ~ Al lvarez,
1080:...for though the quiet of deep solitude reigned in that vast and nearly boundless forest, nature was speaking with her thousand tongues in the eloquent language of night in a wilderness. The air sighed through ten thousand trees, the water ripped, and at places even roared along the shores; and now and then was heard the creaking of a branch or a trunk, as it rubbed against some object similar to itself, under the vibrations of a nicely balanced body. ~ James Fenimore Cooper,
1081:People don't know that they do that to people when they do the things they shouldn't. Hurtful things are roots,they spread ,branch out, creep under the surface touching other parts of the lives of those they hurt. It's never one mistake, it's never one moment, it becomes a series of moments, each moment growing roots and spurting in different directions. And over time, they become muddled like an old twisted tree, strangling itself and tying itself up in knots. ~ Cecelia Ahern,
1082:Slowly the heat from his body chased the chill from hers. Loretta’s eyelids grew heavy. The wind whispering in the treetops seemed peaceful now, not frightening. The shifting shadows that had terrified her for hours became just that, shifting shadows.
A branch cracked somewhere in the darkness. A large animal of some kind, she guessed. It didn’t matter. Wolf, bear, coyote, or cougar, Hunter the terrible was beside her. Nothing would dare challenge him. ~ Catherine Anderson,
1083:I agree with Kilgore Trout about realistic novels and their accumulations of nit-picking details. In Trout’s novel, The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank, the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in diameter. He gets a realistic novel out of the branch library in his neighborhood. He reads about sixty pages of it, and then he takes it back. The librarian asks him why he doesn’t like it, and he says to her, “I already know about human beings. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1084:The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil (this is traditionally called the problem of theodicy) is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics. Surely there must come a time when we will acknowledge the obvious: theology is not little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings. ~ Sam Harris,
1085:Jew—though his struggle with contendinG-desires is difficult and fraught with risk—has the power to achieve victory and remain free from sin. For he is “a branch of My planting, the work of My hands,”21 and “a part of G-d above.”22 As nothing can prevail over G-d, so can nothing prevail over the Jew against his will. And he has been promised victory, for we are told, “His banished will not be rejected by Him”23 and “All Israel has a share in the world to come. ~ Menachem M Schneerson,
1086:I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university. ~ John Jakes,
1087:Matthew’s case underlines a surprising fact: since 9/11 the FBI has organized more jihadist terrorist plots in the United States than any other organization. Al-Qaeda’s core group in Pakistan has mounted six terrorist plots (of varying degrees of sophistication); al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen has mounted two; the Pakistani Taliban and al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate have each mounted one. Three other plots were engineered by the NYPD. The FBI has been responsible for thirty. ~ Peter L Bergen,
1088:I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and stuff that I'm not in and really make a good run at it as a production. I'm probably going to take a break from acting after a little while because I've enjoyed the developmental process so much. It helps you as an actor to learn story and to learn how to really nurture a script and work with a writer so you're not sitting there having to write it yourself and give notes. ~ Channing Tatum,
1089:Life isn’t just about defying death,” Raj says, his voice coming through the speakers on either side of the television. “It’s also about defying yourself, about insisting on transformation. As long as you can transform, my friends, you cannot die. What does Clark Kent have in common with the chameleon? Right when they’re on the brink of destruction, they change. Where have they gone? Nowhere we can see. The chameleon has become a branch. Clark Kent has become Superman. ~ Chloe Benjamin,
1090:The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. Impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca,
1091:We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices, and in the event of peace on terms which have been contemplated by some powers we shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada and add to the Empire of liberty an extensive and fertile Country thereby converting dangerous Enemies into valuable friends. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1092:So, we see that the ground of intelligence must be in the undetermined and unknown flux, that is also the ground of all definable forms of matter. Intelligence is thus not deducible or explainable on the basis of any branch of knowledge (e.g. physics or biology). Its origin is deeper and more inward than any knowable order that could describe it. (Indeed, it has to comprehend the very order of definable forms of matter through which we would hope to comprehend intelligence. ~ David Bohm,
1093:Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1094:Ukamaka watched him and thought how much more subdued Catholic Masses were in America; how in Nigeria it would have been a vibrant green branch from a mango tree that the priest would dip in a bucket of holy water held by a hurrying, sweating Mass-server; how he would have stridden up and down, splashing and swirling, holy water raining down; how the people would have been drenched; and how, smiling and making the sign of the cross, they would have felt blessed. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
1095:Between these efforts he sent the following, loosely connected string of comments and observations Bob’s way: “You have responsibilities now, Bob. You must lose this naïve understanding of violence! You are embarrassin’ me in front of the lads! You can’t play by their rules or they’ll win unfailingly! You don’t engage in courtly play-fightin’ with one such as this. You get a great friggin’ tree-branch and keep hittin’ him with it until he dies. Like that. D’you see, boys? ~ Neal Stephenson,
1096:No one promised life would be easy or that the game wouldn't change without warning. There you are, all ready to pass Go and collect two hundred dollars, and suddenly Colonel Mustard is trapped in the conservatory, ranting and raving and waving a wrench, and no one knows what exactly a conservatory is or why anyone thought a wrench - of all things - would be a good murder weapon, or what branch of the military Colonel Mustard even served in! Has anyone seen his credentials? ~ Beth Harbison,
1097:The Lyrebird
Early
on the way to a meeting at Batemans
I glimpse a lyrebird
on the edge of the Mt Agony road
gone as soon as I notice it
I slow down
and look at the place where it entered
but there is nothing,
the bird
become dry branch, scrubshadow.
Later
writing this down
I wonder what part of the self it is
hides amongst language
– looking at
these words, this
page,
trying to find where I entered.
~ David Brooks,
1098:Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut. ~ John Bunyan,
1099:Spirituality is much wider than any particular religion, and in the larger ideas of it that are now coming on us even the greatest religion becomes no more than a broad sect or branch of the one universal religion, by which we shall understand in the future man's seeking for the eternal, the divine, the greater self, the source of unity and his attempt to arrive at some equation, some increasing approximation of the values of human life with the eternal and the divine values. ~ Sri Aurobindo,
1100:What is the fundamental nature of reality? Philosophers call this the question of ontology—the study of the basic structure of the world, the ingredients and relationships of which the universe is ultimately composed. It can be contrasted with epistemology, which is how we obtain knowledge about the world. Ontology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of reality; we also talk about “an” ontology, referring to a specific idea about what that nature actually is. ~ Sean Carroll,
1101:Life isn’t just about defying death,’ Raj says, his voice coming through the speakers on either side of the television. ‘It’s also about defying yourself, about insisting on transformation. As long as you can transform, my friends, you cannot die. What does Clark Kent have in common with the chameleon? Right when they’re on the brink of destruction, they change. Where have they gone? Nowhere we can see. The chameleon has become a branch. Clark Kent has become Superman. ~ Chloe Benjamin,
1102:Being near Tom and Doug at night kept me from having to say to myself I am not afraid whenever I heard a branch snap in the dark or the wind shook so fiercely it seemed something bad was about to happen. But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I'd realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really -- all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
1103:I’m not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I’ll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they’d hurt you—” “They didn’t,” I said firmly. I refused to let him know how scared I’d been because I was afraid he might go after them. “I’m fine. You came to the rescue.” A smile played at his lips. “Something tells me you would’ve rescued yourself.” And like that, the smile vanished. “But spirit would’ve been a lot more effective than a branch.” “Your treejitsu was very effective. ~ Richelle Mead,
1104:Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION! ~ Jack London,
1105:I have the documents. Documents, proof, evidence, photograph, signature. One day you raise your right hand and you are American. They give you an American Pass port. The United States of America. Somewhere someone has taken my identity and replaced it with their photograph. The other one. Their signature their seals. Their own image. And you learn the executive branch the legislative branch and the third. Justice. Judicial branch. It makes the difference The rest is past. ~ Theresa Hak Kyung Cha,
1106:Whatever are Snorks?"
"Don't you really know what a Snork is?" said Snufkin in amazement. "They must be the same family as you, I should think, because they look the same, except that they aren't often white. They can be any color in the world (like an Easter egg), and they change color when they get upset."
Moomintroll looked quite angry. "Well!" he said. "I've never heard of that branch of the family. A real Moomintroll is always white. Changing color indeed! What an idea! ~ Tove Jansson,
1107:I've lived to see my longings die"

I've lived to se my longings die:
My dreams and I have grown apart;
Now only sorrow haunts my eye,
The wages of a bitter heart.

Beneath the storms of hostile fate,
My flowery wreath has faded fast;
I live alone and sadly wait
To see when death will come at last.

Just so, when the winds in winter moan
And snow descends in frigid flakes,
Upon a naked branch, alone,
The final leaf of summer shakes! ~ Alexander Pushkin,
1108:Too often we think of religion as a far-off, mysteriously run bureaucracy to which we apply for assistance when we feel the need. We go to a local branch office and direct the clerk (sometimes called a pastor) to fill out our order for God. Then we go home and wait for God to be delivered to us according to the specifications that we have set down. But that is not the way it works. And if we thought about it for two consecutive minutes, we would not want it to work that way. If ~ Eugene H Peterson,
1109:"Remember, you must always be one step ahead of your enemy!" said an airy voice that resonated through the trees. Alex looked around the forest but didn't see who or where it was coming from. Perhaps it was a spirit?
The man seemed to be taking the voice's advice. He used the bear's head as a springboard and jumped into the air. He grabbed hold of a tree branch and pulled himself into the tree.
"A step AHEAD, not step ON their head!" the mysterious voice clarified. ~ Chris Colfer,
1110:I've lived to see my longings die

I've lived to see my longings die:
My dreams and I have grown apart;
Now only sorrow haunts my eye,
The wages of a bitter heart.

Beneath the storms of hostile fate,
My flowery wreath has faded fast;
I live alone and sadly wait
To see when death will come at last.

Just so, when the winds in winter moan
And snow descends in frigid flakes,
Upon a naked branch, alone,
The final leaf of summer shakes!... ~ Alexander Pushkin,
1111:Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered. ~ Harriet Lerner,
1112:Some of us try desperately to hold on to ourselves, to live for ourselves. We look so bedraggled and pathetic doing it, hanging on to the dead branch of a bank account for dear life, afraid to risk ourselves on the untried wings of giving. We don’t think we can live generously because we have never tried. But the sooner we start the better, for we are going to have to give up our lives finally, and the longer we wait the less time we have for the soaring and swooping life of grace. ~ Eugene H Peterson,
1113:What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which you rest a moment when you are tired of flying; the bass that interposes itself below the soprano’s fervour to let it climb even higher—what am I? I am the earthly gravity that keeps you on the ground. What am I, then? Body, mass, earth, dust and ashes.—You, my […], you are soul and spirit.”

—Johannes the Seducer, from Either/Or ~ S ren Kierkegaard,
1114:...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any other manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff—they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip for some reason. ~ David Foster Wallace,
1115:...for all that people have tried to abuse it and disown it. "feminism" is still the word we need. No other word will do. And let's face it, there has been no other word, save "Girl Power" -- which makes you sound like you're into some branch of Scientology owned by Geri Halliwell. That "Girl Power" has been the sole rival to the word "feminism" in the last 50 years is a cause for much sorrow on behalf of the women. After all, P. Diddy has had four different names, and he's just one man. ~ Caitlin Moran,
1116:I am from the Kilburn branch of the Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation," said Hifan proudly.

Irie inhaled.

Keepers of the Eternal and Victorious Islamic Nation," repeated Millat, impressed. "That's a wicked name. It's got a wicked kung-fu arse sound to it."

Irie frowned. "KEVIN?"

We are aware," said Hifan solemnly, pointing to the spot underneath the cupped flame where the initials were minutely embroidered, "that we have an acronym problem. ~ Zadie Smith,
1117:Lulu!

The voice sank though Luce's skin and straight into her heart. Daniel's voice. He was calling to her. He wanted her. Needed her. Luce moved toward the sound. She hadn't even noticed that she'd started to rise from her seat on the high branch, as if she could just walk off the treetop and fly to him--until Bill gripped her elbow.

Precisely why I had to drag your popaa ass up here. He's not talking to you. He's talking to her.

Oh. Luce sank back down heavily. Right. ~ Lauren Kate,
1118:This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. It is the duty of all living things to produce some truly constructive labor as recognition of the divine life which is within them. God is most glorified when His children glorify His spirit within themselves. ~ Manly P Hall, What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples,
1119:Death Anyway meant "What the hell, even Hemingway sucked on a shotgun..." Death Anyway, when you came down to it, meant why in God's name would you want to be Pre-Law, Pre-Med, or Pre-Anything, when any microbe could see that just being alive was no more than Pre-Death.(...) That was the world, to me. If you showed up - if you did what they told you to do - you'd still end up with your skull in bloody gauze or your balls hanging from a branch. So why bother? Nothing mattered. Death anyway... ~ Jerry Stahl,
1120:When I finally begin to surface into the sterile hospital room in 13, I remember. I was under the influence of sleep syrup. My heel had been injured after I'd climbed out on a branch over the electric fence and dropped back into 12. Peeta had put me to bed and I had asked him to stay with me as I was drifting off. He had whispered something I couldn't quite catch. But some part of my brain had trapped his single word of reply and let it swim up through my dreams to taunt me now. "Always. ~ Suzanne Collins,
1121:I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis,
1122:I’m not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I’ll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they’d hurt you—”
“They didn’t,” I said firmly. I refused to let him know how scared I’d been because I was afraid he might go after them. “I’m fine. You came to the rescue.”
A smile played at his lips. “Something tells me you would’ve rescued yourself.” And like that, the smile vanished. “But spirit would’ve been a lot more effective than a branch.”
“Your treejitsu was very effective. ~ Richelle Mead,
1123:Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds? ~ Susan Sontag,
1124:What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you rise in your lovely grace; the branch upon which you rest a moment when you are tired of flying; the bass that interposes itself below the soprano’s fervour to let it climb even higher—what am I? I am the earthly gravity that keeps you on the ground. What am I, then? Body, mass, earth, dust and ashes.—You, my Cordelia, you are soul and spirit.”

—Johannes the Seducer, from Either/Or ~ S ren Kierkegaard,
1125:She watched a squirrel watching her. “Yeah, laugh all you want, buckaroo. I need the exercise, and nobody invited you to watch. Whoops!” Cass slid feet first down five feet or so of the rock surface. Pathetic miniature avalanches of chalky rock trickled around her. Fifteen feet away, another squirrel joined the first on the branch of a crooked, dead tree. The soil could not nourish the tree here. But the squirrels could gather there to make bad squirrel jokes and watch the human burlesque. ~ Chet Williamson,
1126:The Christian life is not just our own private affair. If we have been born again into God's family, not only has he become our Father but every other Christian believer in the world, whatever his nation or denomination, has become our brother or sister in Christ. But it is no good supposing that membership of the universal Church of Christ is enough; we must belong to some local branch of it. Every Christian's place is in a local church. sharing in its worship, its fellowship, and its witness. ~ John Stott,
1127:Very hesitantly, the pheasant started pecking at the dung, and lo on the very first day it reached the first branch of the tree. In a fortnight's time, it reached the topmost branch of the tree. It just went and sat on the topmost branch and just enjoyed the scenery. The old farmer saw a fat old pheasant on the top of the tree. He took out his shotgun and shot him off the tree. So the moral of the story is: even bullshit can get you to the top, but never lets you stay there. [Everybody laughs] So ~ Sadhguru,
1128:All that remained was the scientific specialist, who knew "more and more about less and less," and the philosophical speculator, who knew less and less about more and more. The specialist put on blinders in order to shut out from his vision all the world but one little spot, to which he glued his nose. Perspective was lost. "Facts" replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom. Every science, and every branch of philosophy, developed ~ Will Durant,
1129:I think our songwriting has evolved. We can show that we have continued to branch out and do different stuff and incorporate different instruments. When it comes to writing, I think that we have pushed the envelope. We can do whatever we want to try - a longer song or a shorter song, some different instruments, some piano, an intro with just vocals, something that's scathing. Whatever. However we feel the song should go, that's what we will do. With that mindset, I think it's made us better writers. ~ John Bush,
1130:And I would have answered:
"The knottier the branch, the more twisted and misshapen, the more bent people called it, the harder it is to find it a place among the smooth planks, the more people agree that it should be thrown on the fire, the more useless it is, the more unsuitable for anything except letting one's imagination run riot, the more I covet it, the more I yearn to weigh it in my hand, the more I long to let my whittling knife be guided by its knots and veins...Yes, bring that piece to me... ~ Sj n,
1131:From out of nowhere, she had an image of some poor human in a FedEx Office branch getting an eyeful and a half of the mostly naked fallen angel.

Without warning, she started to laugh so hard, tears came to her eyes. The good kind of tears, that was.

And as she gave herself up to the angel's ridiculousness, Lass just say there on the couch, staring up at "Melrose Place", a sly, quiet smile on his beautiful, deranged face.

What an angel he was, she thought to herself. A total angel. ~ J R Ward,
1132:Theology is not merely another branch of philosophy, but something else entirely. For him, philosophy was man's search for truth apart from God... But theology begins and ends with faith in Christ, who reveals himself to man; apart from such revelation, there could be no such thing as truth. Thus the philosopher-- and the theologian who operates on a philosopher's assumptions-- chases his own tail and gazes at his own navel. He cannot break out of that cycle, but God, via revelation, can break in. ~ Eric Metaxas,
1133:One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the leader of the Executive Branch, the Commander-in-Chief, the spokesperson for the nation, but the influence and the work that we have is the result not just of the president, it is the result of countless interactions and arrangements and relationships between our military and other militaries, and our diplomats and other diplomats, the intelligence officers and development workers. ~ Barack Obama,
1134:The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of all connection with Christianity. Christianity must pervade not merely all nations, but also all of human thought. The Christian, therefore, cannot be indifferent to any branch of earnest human endeavor. It must all be brought into some relation to the gospel. It must be studied either in order to be demonstrated as false, or else in order to be made useful in advancing the Kingdom of God. ~ J Gresham Machen,
1135:The man journeyed far, and he heard and saw many strange things on his travels. He learned that - that the friend and the enemy are but two faces of the same self. That the path one believes chosen long since, constant and unchangeable, straight and wide, can alter in an instant. Can branch, and twist and lead the traveler to places far beyond his wildest imaginings. That there are mysteries beyond the mind of mortal man, and that to deny their existence is to spend a life of half-consciousness. ~ Juliet Marillier,
1136:Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. ~ George Orwell,
1137:Meggie looked up at the dense thicket of branches. She had never set eyes on a tree like it before. The bark was reddish brown, but as rough as the bark of an oak, and the trunk did not branch until high up in the tree, although it had so many bulges that you could find footholds and handholds everywhere. In some places huge tree fungi formed platforms. Hollows gaped in the towering trunk, and crevices full of feathers showed that human beings were not the only creatures to have nested in this tree. ~ Cornelia Funke,
1138:But in fact I was like Ossie, in this one regard: I was consumed by a helpless, often furious love for a ghost. Every rock on the island, every swaying tree branch or dirty dish in our house was like a word in a a sentence that I could read about my mother. All objects and events on our island, every single thing that you could see with your eyes, were like clues that I could use to reinvent her: would our mom love this thing, would she hate it? For a second I luxuriated in a real hatred of my brother. ~ Karen Russell,
1139:That he knew marked him off as belonging to the sentimental branch of humanity. He couldn't help it: Stoic or Epicurean: Caliph in the harem or Dervish desiccating in the sand: one or the other you must be. And his desire was to be a saint of the Anglican variety… as his mother had been, without convent, ritual, vows, or miracles to be performed by your relics! That sainthood, truly, the Foreign Legion might give you… The desire of every English gentleman from Colonel Hutchinson upwards… A mysticism… ~ Ford Madox Ford,
1140:I conjure the boy I knew. Achilles, grinning as the figs blur in his hands. His green eyes laughing into mine. Catch, he says. Achilles, outlined against the sky, hanging from a branch over the river. The thick warmth of his sleepy breath against my ear. If you have to go, I will go with you. My fears forgotten in the golden harbor of his arms.
The memories come, and come. She listens, staring into the grain of the stone. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both. ~ Madeline Miller,
1141:When Hamilton heard about British depredations, he did not behave like a pawn of British interests. Rather, he drew up for Washington contingency plans to raise a twenty-thousand-man army to defend coastal cities and impose a partial trade embargo. “The pains taken to preserve peace,” he told Washington, “include a proportional responsibility that equal pains be taken to be prepared for war.”4 Once again, Hamilton and Washington agreed that the executive branch should take the lead in a national emergency. ~ Ron Chernow,
1142:Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable. ~ Arthur C Clarke,
1143:We thus see that the price of a commodity is indeed determined by its cost of production, but in such wise that the periods in which the price of these commodities rises above the cost of production are balanced by the periods in which it sinks below the cost of production, and vice versa. Of course this does not hold good for a single given product of an industry, but only for that branch of industry. So also it does not hold good for an individual manufacturer, but only for the whole class of manufacturers. ~ Karl Marx,
1144:Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.’” Caleb nodded. “From the Book of John.” “Yes,” she said quietly. “It’s one of my favorite verses of Scripture. In times of stress, I repeat that verse, as many times as needed. It never fails to help keep me calm. I’ve always found that giving Christ complete authority over my life brings an unbelievable freedom. The kind of freedom that nothing, or no one else, can. ~ JoAnn Durgin,
1145:Another piece of paper discovered among my father’s effects was a yellowed document dated 1906. It was a phrenologist’s report of a reading he had done on the bumps of the head of Raymond A. Kroc, aged four. He had predicted that I would become a chef or work in some branch of food service. I was amazed at the prognostication; after all I was in a food service–related business and felt a real affinity for kitchens. Little did I know how much more accurate that old boy’s prophesy would eventually prove to be. In ~ Ray Kroc,
1146:Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, “to hang on to [the power] he had wielded as Majority Leader” as a “de facto Majority Leader”; Johnson “had the illusions that he could be in a sense, as Vice President, the Majority Leader.” His proposal violated what was to these senators one of the Senate’s most sacred precepts—its independence of the executive branch; he was proposing that a member of that branch preside over their meetings. ~ Robert A Caro,
1147:Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too high, the other will be weakened too much. It is the happiest possible mode of conciliating these objects, to institute one branch peculiarly endowed with sensibility, another with knowledge and firmness. Through the opposition and mutual control of these bodies, the government will reach, in its regular operations, the perfect balance between liberty and power. ~ Alexander Hamilton,
1148:For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so. ~ James Branch Cabell,
1149:Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print. ~ Dale Spender,
1150:Why try to fit yourself into that same, tired mold when you could become something better?"

"Because it's safe," he said. "Don't we all want to feel safe?"

Linley shrugged. "Not always. Sometimes I like to push the boundaries. I like seeing what I'm truly capable of."

The both ducked down to miss a long, overhanging branch that skimmed across the jungle path.

"But you could get hurt," Patrick said. "You could get yourself killed."

"Isn't death the one risk of really living? ~ Allyson Jeleyne,
1151:Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense cannot stay still, it seethes with second, third and fourth senses, radiating out in different directions that divide and subdivide into branches and branch-lets, until they disappear from view, the sense of every word is like a star hurling spring tides out into space, cosmic winds, magnetic perturbations, afflictions. ~ Jos Saramago,
1152:I grabbed the bottom branch of the nearest big tree and swung up. Daniel followed. As I crouched on the branch, I looked for Rafe and found him where I’d last seen him, just standing there with this weird look on his face, like he wanted to run but couldn’t. He glowered at the bear and his expression wasn’t shock or fear. It was defiance.
“Rafe!” I screamed.
That snapped him out of it. He blinked and saw the forest flattening in a path heading straight for him. His lips formed a curse and he backpedaled. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1153:In fact, the Internet would not exist if not for the fiber cables that vein the ground beneath our streets, through our sewers. There are around eighty major network junctions—known as IXPs, for Internet exchange points—throughout the country. These are the freeways that feed the domestic traffic as well as the international data that comes from undersea cables. They are nakedly unprotected. As are the fiber cables that branch off them and come together—at pinch points, spaghetti junctions—within the data centers. ~ Benjamin Percy,
1154:The Yellow Mustard Is Blooming
The yellow mustard is blooming in every field,
Mango buds are clicking open, other flowers too;
The koyal chirps from branch to branch,
And the maiden tries her make-up,
The gardener-girls have brought bouquets.
Colourful flowers of all kinds,
In hands everyone's bringing;
But Aashiq-rung (the lover) , who had promised to come
To Nizamuddin's house in spring,
Hasn't turned up - its been years.
The yellow mustard is blooming in every field.
~ Amir Khusro,
1155:To submit is the great lesson. I too was once a dreamer: and in dreams there are lessons. But to submit, without dreaming any more, is the great lesson; to submit, without either understanding or repining, and without demanding of life too much of beauty or of holiness, and without shirking the fact that this universe is under no least bond ever to grant us, upon either side of the grave, our desires. To do that, my son, does not satisfy and probably will not ever satisfy a Puysange. But to do that is wisdom. ~ James Branch Cabell,
1156:Surely a University is the very place where we should be able to overcome this tendency of men to become, as it were, granulated into small worlds, which are all the more worldly for their very smallness. We lose the advantage of having men of varied pursuits collected into one body, if we do not endeavour to imbibe some of the spirit even of those whose special branch of learning is different from our own. ~ James Clerk Maxwell, "Introductory Lecture on Experimental Physics," The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell (1890) Vol.2,
1157:He was anxious to reach the end of his long journey. And he arrived, concentrating on swinging his sharp blade like a pendulum, hypnotized by the rhythm, cutting his way through the thickest bushes without being able to see past the thorny branch in front of him, and the next, and then the next, and then the next, until suddenly there were no more: just his bees’ treasure. And his bees were there, waiting for him. You’re here. You’re here, they said to him, buzzing around him. Look. Touch. Smell. Here. Take it. Take it. ~ Sof a Segovia,
1158:Space
From the trees the leaves came down
until we joined hands with a wand
and that act enabled them
somehow then to reach the ground
where they scuttered round our feet
urging the latter to unite
with a baton as if that act
together with the hands can clasp
a dowsing-stick cut from the same
branch from which we launched
converging on gravity's purge-point
at which point we merged to remove
all consonants from our star-maps.
The infinite consists of vowels alone.
~ Bill Knott,
1159:There is for science a particular class of facts to be considered—specifically the most important because the rarest and most significant—those which depend neither on direct observation nor experiment, but can only be brought to light by a very authentic branch of ‘physics,’ the discovery of the past. And, to judge by our repeated failures to find its equivalent around us or to reproduce it, the first apparition of living bodies is clearly one of the most sensational of these events. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man,
1160:The Weasel Cafferty’s lieutenant Aly the Weasel’s son Ellen Dempsey owner of MG Cabs in Edinburgh DI Bobby Hogan Leith-based detective WPC Antonia “Toni” Jackson experienced uniformed officer at St. Leonard’s PC John “Perry” Mason latest recruit to the uniformed branch at St. Leonard’s Laura Stafford a prostitute Donny Dow father of Laura’s child DS Liz Hetherington Dundee-based detective Ricky manager of the Sauna Paradiso Other Characters Claverhouse detective in the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency Ormiston Claverhouse’s ~ Ian Rankin,
1161:More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre. ~ Patrice Pavis,
1162:You’re the one with the family tree that doesn’t branch.” She illustrated said tree with her fingers. “How many Egyptian gods slept with their brothers’ and sisters’ wife’s mother’s uncle’s dogs? Hmm? I ask you?” He wasn’t quite sure if he should be offended or amused by her attack on his family. Honestly, he had no real feelings for any of them other than hatred and disdain but … “Have you visited your pantheon lately?” “We’re not talking about my pantheon, here. Are we? No. We’re insulting yours.”
-Lydia and Seth- ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
1163:Branch Library
I wish I could find that skinny, long-beaked boy
who perched in the branches of the old branch library.
He spent the Sabbath flying between the wobbly stacks
and the flimsy wooden tables on the second floor,
pecking at nuts, nesting in broken spines, scratching
notes under his own corner patch of sky.
I'd give anything to find that birdy boy again
bursting out into the dusky blue afternoon
with his satchel of scrawls and scribbles,
radiating heat, singing with joy.
~ Edward Hirsch,
1164:Up to this time, Mr Pancks had transacted little or no business at his quarters in Pentonville, except in the sleeping line; but now that he had become a fortune-teller, he was often closeted after midnight with Mr Rugg in his little front-parlour office, and even after those untimely hours, burnt tallow in his bed-room. Though his duties as his proprietor's grubber were in no wise lessened; and though that service bore no greater resemblance to a bed of roses than was to be discovered in its many thorns; some new branch ~ Charles Dickens,
1165:But how can we tally what an achievement it was to endure what Jackie Robinson endured those first few years? It was an incalculable and heroic sacrifice that can never be reckoned or understood by any conventional standards. Robinson did what he agreed to do when he met that day with Branch Rickey, and he changed the game forever. It was a singular feat of such great moral strength that all athletic strength must pale in comparison. With God’s help, one man lifted up a whole people and pulled a whole nation into the future. ~ Eric Metaxas,
1166:poor or the owners of small capitals enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit. In every different branch, the oppression of the poor must establish the monopoly of the rich, who, by engrossing the whole trade to themselves, will be able to make very large profits. ~ Niall Ferguson,
1167:The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment. ~ Avicenna,
1168:And yet this was a liability for the Democrat. McConnell, whose mantra was to repeal Obamacare “root and branch,” won in a wipeout. The absurdity of the outcome was captured in a May poll of Kentuckians by NBC and Marist College. When asked how they felt about both Obamacare and Kynect, respondents disapproved of Obamacare by 56 to 33 percent but they approved of Kynect by 29 to 22 percent, despite the fact that Kynect is Obamacare. Only 22 percent of whites disapproved of Kynect, but 60 percent of them disapproved of Obamacare. ~ Anonymous,
1169:Global warming is socialism by the back door. The whole point of global warming is that it's a rationalization for progressives to do what progressives want to do, which is concentrate more and more power in Washington, more and more Washington power in the executive branch, more and more executive branch power in independent czars and agencies to micromanage the lives of the American people -- our shower heads, our toilets, our bathtubs, our garden hoses. Everything becomes involved in the exigencies of rescuing the planet. ~ George F Will,
1170:1 can sardines in oil Only Ruby Brand boneless and skinless - in oil - from Morocco 1 dollop Dijon mustard small handful cornichons small handful Triscuit crackers 1 parsley branch Buckle the can after you open it to make it easier to lift the sardines out of the oil without breaking them. Stack the sardines on the plate the same way they looked in the can—more or less. Don’t crisscross or zigzag or otherwise make “restauranty.” Commit to the full stem of parsley, not just the leaf. Chewing the stems freshens the breath. ~ Gabrielle Hamilton,
1171:Danny’s mother, Kate Helen Branch, had been the love of Burley Coulter’s life. They were careless lovers, those two, and Danny came as a surprise—albeit a far greater surprise to Burley than to Kate Helen. Danny was born to his mother’s name, a certified branch of the Branches, and he grew up in the care of his mother and his mother’s mother in a small tin-roofed, paper-sided house on an abandoned corner of Thad Spellman’s farm, not far from town by a shortcut up through the woods. As the sole child in that womanly household, ~ Wendell Berry,
1172:Climb!” he shouted.
The bear backed away, shaking his shaggy head, dazed by the impact. He looked at me, and I froze and I knew then what had stopped Rafe from running. When the bear met my gaze, any thoughts of escape vanished. Instinct said to fight. This was my territory, and no bear was going to take it from me. Stand firm and--
“Maya!” Rafe grabbed my jacket again and nearly yanked me off the branch. “Climb!”
That snapped me out of it, and when I looked down now, all I saw was a very big, very pissed off bear. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1173:One reason for this absence is that black writers have only recently entered the popular genres in force. Our writers have historically been regarded as a footnote best suited to address the nature of our own chains. So, if black writers wanted to branch out past the realism of racism and race, they were curtailed by their own desire to document the crimes of America. A further deterrent was the white literary establishment’s desire for blacks to write about being black in a white world, a limitation imposed upon a limitation. ~ Sheree Thomas,
1174:What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure. ~ Richard Dawkins,
1175:The cat, who’d probably had lots of practice climbing one of those carpeted perches at home, ran up the side of the tree, pounced on one branch and then a higher branch. Before Patricia and Dirrp even knew what was going on, the cat was halfway up. “We’re trapped! What were you thinking?” Dirrp sang out. Patricia waited until Tommington had reached the top, then swung down the other side of the tree, dropping from branch to branch so fast she almost pulled her arm out, and then landed on the ground on her butt with an oof. ~ Charlie Jane Anders,
1176:There are Four of Us

I have turned aside from everything,
from the whole earthly store.
The spirit and guardian of this place
is an old tree-stump in water.

We are brief guests of the earth, as it were,
and life is a habit we put on.
On paths of air I seem to overhear
two friendly voices, talking in turn.

Did I say two?...There
by the east wall's tangle of raspberry,
is a branch of elder, dark and fresh.
Why! It's a letter from Marina.


November 1962 (in delirium) ~ Anna Akhmatova,
1177:The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once. ~ Penelope Lively,
1178:The silver-haired elf woman Yaela had knelt by the side of the grave, taken an acorn from the pouch on her belt, and planted it directly above Wyrden’s chest. And then the twelve elves, Arya included, sang to the acorn, which took root and sprouted and grew twining upward, reaching and grasping toward the sky like a clutch of hands. When the elves had finished, the leafy oak stood twenty feet high, with long strings of green flowers at the end of every branch. Eragon had thought it was the nicest burial he had ever attended. ~ Christopher Paolini,
1179:If she had looked out the window, she might have seen a great, hoary old black owl alight on the branch of the oak tree. She might have seen the owl lean perilously forward on his green-black branch and, without taking his gaze from her window, fall hard—thump, bash!—onto the streetside. She would have seen the bird bounce up, and when he righted himself, become a handsome young man in a handsome black coat, his dark hair curly and thick, flecked with silver, his mouth half-smiling, as if anticipating a terribly sweet thing. ~ Catherynne M Valente,
1180:The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance ~ Thomas Huxley,
1181:I have throughout introduced the Integral Calculus in connexion with the Differential Calculus. ...Is it always proper to learn every branch of a direct subject before anything connected with the inverse relation is considered? If so why are not multiplication and involution in arithmetic made to follow addition and precede subtraction? The portion of the Integral Calculus, which properly belongs to any given portion of the Differential Calculus increases its power a hundred-fold... ~ Augustus De Morgan, The Differential and Integral Calculus (1836),
1182:The advantage of this interpretation is that we can drop condition number three, the collapse of the wave function. Wave functions never collapse, they just continue to evolve, forever splitting into other wave functions, in a never-ending tree, with each branch representing an entire universe. The great advantage of the many worlds theory is that it is simpler than the Copenhagen interpretation: it requires no collapse of the wave function. The price we pay is that now we have universes that continually split into millions of branches. ~ Michio Kaku,
1183:Americans, FDR noted in 1941, would “rather die on our feet than live on our knees,” and the passion for freedom, for justice, and for the rule of law was not limited to the world beyond the seas. After news of the June 1940 lynching of Elbert Williams, the secretary of his local NAACP branch in western Tennessee, The Pittsburgh Courier wrote: “There is something definitely wrong about a so-called democratic government that froths at the mouth about…terrorism abroad, yet has not a mumble of condemnation for the same sort of thing at home. ~ Jon Meacham,
1184:I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought - the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation... 'ontogenesis is a brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogenesis, determined by the physiological functions of heredity (generation) and adaptation (maintenance). ~ Ernst Haeckel,
1185:People at civil-liberties organizations say it's a sea change, and that it's very clear judges have begun to question more critically assertions made by the executive. Even though it seems so obvious now, it is extraordinary in the context of the last decade, because courts had simply said they were not the best branch to adjudicate these claims - which is completely wrong, because they are the only nonpolitical branch. They are the branch that is specifically charged with deciding issues that cannot be impartially decided by politicians. ~ Edward Snowden,
1186:Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.” —JOHN 15:4–7 ~ Sarah Young,
1187:There is no mystery in this association of woods and otherworlds, for as anyone who has walked the woods knows, they are places of correspondence, of call and answer. Visual affinities of color, relief and texture abound. A fallen branch echoes the deltoid form of a streambed into which it has come to rest. Chrome yellow autumn elm leaves find their color rhyme in the eye-ring of the blackbird. Different aspects of the forest link unexpectedly with each other, and so it is that within the stories, different times and worlds can be joined. ~ Robert Macfarlane,
1188:So 50,000 years ago, there’s us, the Neanderthals, Hobbits, and Denisovans. Actually there were probably a couple more hominids, but the point is there were say five or six subspecies of humans. And then our branch of the human tree explodes while the others die out. We go from a few thousand to seven billion people in the span of fifty thousand years and the other human subspecies go extinct. We conquer the globe while they die in caves. It’s the greatest mystery of all time, and scientists have been working on it since time began. Religion too. ~ A G Riddle,
1189:One branch after another of chemistry, physics, and cosmology has merged in the majestic river as it approaches the estuary-to be swallowed up by the ocean, lose its identity, and evaporate into the clouds; the final act of the great vanishing process, and the beginning, one hopes, of a new cycle. It has been said that we know more and more about less and less. It seems that the more universal the 'laws' which we discover, the more elusive they become, and that the ultimate consummation of all rivers of knowledge is in the cloud of unknowing. ~ Arthur Koestler,
1190:Husserl had long ago considered the possibility that the whole intentional dance could just as easily be understood as occurring inside a person’s inner realm. Since the epoché suspended questions about whether things were real, nothing stood in the way of this interpretation. Real, not real; inside, outside; what difference did it make? Reflecting on this, Husserl began turning his phenomenology into a branch of ‘idealism’ — the philosophical tradition which denied external reality and defined everything as a kind of private hallucination. What ~ Sarah Bakewell,
1191:Meditation is the saints’ looking glass, by which they see things invisible. Meditation is the golden ladder by which they ascend to paradise. Meditation is the spy they send abroad to search the land of promise, and it brings a cluster of the grapes of Eshcol with it. Meditation is the dove they send out, and it brings an olive branch of peace in its mouth. But who can tell how sweet honey is, save they that taste it? The excellency of meditation I leave to experienced Christians, who will say the comfort of it may be better felt than expressed. ~ Thomas Watson,
1192:government has been co-opted in what is known as “elite capture.” By this we mean that the government bends the regulatory systems in the food industry’s favor, to maintain a decidedly lopsided power structure. Either the legislative branch won’t act because the food industry is paying it off, the executive branch won’t act because it’s afraid of the political repercussions, or the populace won’t act because as far as they are concerned, “a calorie is still a calorie” and they still believe in personal responsibility—and they’re addicted anyway. ~ Robert H Lustig,
1193:Hymn Of The Puritans
Arm me, Lord, my strength redouble,
Heaven open, heed my trouble!
God, if my cause Thine shall be,
Grant a day of victory!
Fell all Thy foes now!
Fell all Thy foes now!
Roll forth Thy thunders, Thy lightning affright them,
Into the pit, the bottomless, smite them,
Their seed uproot,
Tread under foot!
Send then Thy snowy white dove peace-bringing,
Unto Thy faithful Thy token winging,
Olive-branch fair of Thy summer's fruition
After the deluge of sin's punition!
~ Bjornstjerne Bjornson,
1194:The Mother’s Visit
LONG years ago she visited my chamber,
Steps soft and slow, a taper in her hand;
Her fond kiss she laid upon my eyelids,
Fair as an angel from the unknown land:
Mother, mother, is it thou I see?
Mother, mother, watching over me.
And yesternight I saw her cross my chamber,
Soundless as light, a palm-branch in her hand;
Her mild eyes she bent upon my anguish,
Calm as an angel from the blessed land;
Mother, mother, is it thou I see?
Mother, mother, art thou come for me?
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik,
1195:You’re waiting for that magical day when someone makes the connection and recognizes who you really are. Maybe they’ll first catch the sparkle in your eye. Or perhaps they’ll marvel at your insights and the depth of your spirit. Someone who will help you connect the dots, believe in yourself, and make sense of it all. Someone who will understand you, approve of you, and unhesitatingly give you a leg up so that life can pluck your ready, ripened self from the branch of magnificence. Well, I’m here to tell you, your wait is over. That someone, is you. ~ Mike Dooley,
1196:I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. —JOHN 15:1–5 ~ Heidi Baker,
1197:Cinderella frowned as she wrestled thin willow branches into place, trying her hand at making a wicker basket. One of the maids had left her with a sample basket and pattern, as well as several started bases, but Cinderella’s basket was lopsided, and the branch ends poked out like twigs in a bird’s nest. “Are you trying to make it look like that, or is it supposed to resemble this one?” Colonel Friedrich asked, holding up the sample basket. Cinderella glared at him. “Don’t you have work to do?” She savagely stabbed the willow in the weaving pattern. “I’ve ~ K M Shea,
1198:The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ~ James Madison,
1199:There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero,
1200:There is traditional mosaic work and glazed tiles in geometric designs, but there is also a smattering of Western consumer goods: ‘several fine European pier glasses with very handsome hangings’ in the royal apartments, for instance, and ‘in each room is a fine gilt branch for wax candles’.60 This is not a straightforward act of emulation of Western tastes, however. In Islamic tradition, light possesses a divine quality as the visible manifestation of God’s presence and reason. As he consistently tries to do, Sidi Muhammad has borrowed from the West with ~ Linda Colley,
1201:when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!—Oh! happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence, perhaps, I may view you no more!—And you, ye well-known trees!—but you will continue the same. No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer!—No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade!—But who will remain to enjoy you? ~ Jane Austen,
1202:First, there’s “San Francisquito Canyon Road,” which weaves down through the mountains for about 20 miles and puts you right at the edge of Valencia. Then there’s “Spunky Canyon Road,” which most of the other streets in the town branch off of as it connects up the neighborhoods. Commuters traveling between the Antelope Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley drive up and down San Francisquito Canyon every day which also provides a quick way for families and teenagers to get to Magic Mountain from Palmdale or Lancaster, if they don’t feel like taking the freeway. ~ Anonymous,
1203:I want to come down," Nic said suddenly.
"It's OK, Nic. You're fine. Just take it slowly."
"I can't," he called. "I'm stuck."
"You can," I said. "You can do it."
"I can't get down." He began crying.
"Take your time," I said. "Find one foothold at a time. Go slowly."
"I can't."
"You can."
He wrapped his gangly legs and arms tighter around the branch.
"I'll fall."
"You won't."
"I will."
I stood directly underneath and yelled up to him, "You're fine. Take your time." I said it, but I was thinking, I'll catch you if you fall. ~ David Sheff,
1204:Our People were imprisoned within the most difficult of the Indian languages, so difficult indeed that no other tribe except one related branch, the Gros Ventres, ever learned to speak it. It stood by itself, a language spoken by only 3300 people in the world: that was the total number of Our People. The enemy tribes were not much larger: the Ute had 3600; the Comanche, 3500; the Pawnee, about 6000. The great Cheyenne, who would be famous in history, had only 3500. The Dakota, known also as the Sioux, had many branches, and they totaled perhaps 11,000. ~ James A Michener,
1205:If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government — is mandatory. The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty, just as America's thirteen colonies did two centuries ago. When we finally come to our senses and establish a world executive and parliament of nations, thanks to the Nuremburg precedent we will already have in place the fundamentals for the third branch of government, the judiciary. ~ Walter Cronkite,
1206:It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered by Chomsky, argues that this is only explicable if certain deep, universal features of this competence are innate characteristics of the human brain. Biologically speaking, this hypothesis of an inheritable capability to learn any language means that it must somehow be encoded in the DNA of our chromosomes. Should this hypothesis one day be verified, then lingusitics would become a branch of biology. ~ Niels Kaj Jerne,
1207:Awake to the Name
To be born in a human body is rare,
Don’t throw away the reward of your past good
deeds.
Life passes in an instant – the leaf doesn’t go back to
the branch.
The ocean of rebirth sweeps up all beings hard,
Pulls them into its cold-running, fierce, implacable
currents.
Giridhara, your name is the raft, the one safe-passage
over.
Take me quickly.
All the awake ones travel with Mira, singing the
name.
She says with them: Get up, stop sleeping – the days
of a life are short.
~ M r b,
1208:When quarrel and strife arose among the immortals, if one of them that dwells on Olympus speaks false, Zeus sends Iris to bring the gods' great oath from far off in a golden jug, the celebrated golden water that drops from a high, sheer cliff and, far below the wide-pathed earth, flows from the holy river through dark night, a branch of Oceanus. A tenth part is her share: nine parts Oceanus winds round the earth and the broad back of the sea with his silver eddies, and falls into the brine, while that one part issues forth from the cliff, a great bane to the gods. ~ Hesiod,
1209:I stopped. He looked at the distance between us and lifted his brows.
“This seems close enough,” I said. “For safety’s sake.”
“Safe from the branch breaking? Or from me?”
He swung his leg over and reached for me, pulling me into a kiss. He started slow, shifting, checking my balance. I backed up a little and swung my leg over, so we were both straddling.
“Better?” I said.
“Much.”
He gave me a real kiss then, deep and hungry, and I think the branch could have snapped and I wouldn’t have noticed until I hit the ground. Maybe not even then. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1210:Topology is that branch of mathematics which is interested in the forms of things aside from their size and shape, Two things are said to be topologically equivalent if one can be deformed smoothly into the other without sticking, cutting, or puncturing it in any way. Thus an egg is equivalent to a sphere. The first application of topology to an analogous problem-the interaction of atoms rather than elementary particles-was made in the mid-nineteenth century by Lord Kelvin. It has many striking parallels with the aims and attractions of modern string theory. ~ John D Barrow,
1211:As a federal district court in Texas recently ruled, federal law “mandates the initiation of immigration removal proceedings whenever an immigration officer encounters an illegal alien who is not ‘clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to be admitted.’” Moreover, the court explained, the Department of Homeland Security does not have “prosecutorial discretion” to ignore this requirement; Congress, not the president, has the plenary power to make immigration law; and the executive branch may not “implement measures that are incompatible with Congressional intent. ~ Andrew McCarthy,
1212:I thought it might be good for morale to look my bank manager in the eye for the first time in ten years, even if the money in my account wasn’t mine. I was shown into a waiting-room outside the manager’s office, and given a plastic cup of plastic coffee which was far too hot to drink until, in the space of a hundredth of a second, it suddenly became far too cold. I was trying to get rid of it behind a rubber plant when a nine-year-old boy with ginger hair stuck his head out of the door, beckoned me in, and announced himself as Graham Halkerston, Branch Manager. ~ Hugh Laurie,
1213:Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air. ~ Frances Wright,
1214:There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures. ~ Alfred Adler,
1215:In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and the medical student learned enough of them. Now, however, chemistry and botany are become sciences of themselves, incapable of comprehension by a hasty survey, and each demanding the study of a whole life, yet we expect the medical student to understand them. He who is prudent, accordingly declines all distracting claims upon his time, and limits himself to a single branch and becomes expert in one thing. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
1216:I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. ~ Winston Churchill,
1217:The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all belongs to him, but that does not make it less interesting. We find that an X ray bulb with a platinum target gives out a sharp line spectrum of five wavelengths which the crystal separates out as if it were a diffraction grating. In this way one can get pure monochromatic X rays. Tomorrow we search for the spectra of other elements. There is here a whole new branch of spectroscopy, which is sure to tell one much about the nature of an atom. ~ Henry Moseley,
1218:Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. To do this I have to climb branch by branch and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of view, it’s reasonable that my friends say: what foolishness! She’s got her head in the clouds again. But it’s not. Of course I have to give up, but by then I’m half crazy with the wonder of it—the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise. ~ Mary Oliver,
1219:My ten years of bank experience should be of interest to a rapidly growing bank like yours. In various capacities in bank operations with the Bankers Trust Company in New York, leading to my present assignment as Branch Manager, I have acquired skills in all phases of banking including depositor relations, credits, loans and administration. I will be relocating to Phoenix in May and I am sure I can contribute to your growth and profit. I will be in Phoenix the week of April 3 and would appreciate the opportunity to show you how I can help your bank meet its goals. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1220:Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. To do this I have to climb branch by branch and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of view, it’s reasonable that my friends say: what foolishness! She’s got her head in the clouds again.
But it’s not. Of course I have to give up, but by then I’m half crazy with the wonder of it—the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise. ~ Mary Oliver,
1221:When shall I cease to regret you! – When learn to feel a home elsewhere! – Oh! Happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! – And you, ye well-known trees! – but you will continue the same. – No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! – No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! – But who will remain to enjoy you? ~ Jane Austen,
1222:I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him. ~ Chuck Lorre,
1223:American musicians, instead of investigating ragtime, attempt to ignore it, or dismiss it with a contemptuous word. But that has always been the course of scholasticism in every branch of art. Whatever new thing the 'people' like is poohpoohed; whatever is 'popular' is spoken of as not worth the while. The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius. ~ James Weldon Johnson,
1224:Remind me of the place. The wind breathing through the trees and the sound of coconuts dropping on the mud. Ta-dup ta dup. The hairy mangrove crabs and the turtles. The evening sky looking like a big mash up rainbow with all these colors leaking down on the sea. The fresh smell of fish and sand in the mornings. Cascadura jumping up from the ponds like living clumps of mud. Dew skating down from the big dasheen leaves as if they playing with the sunlight. A horsewhip snake slipping down a guava branch as smooth as flowing water. Cassava pone and seamoss drinks. ~ Rabindranath Maharaj,
1225:From her bag, she removes the cord of rope with a noose on one end. She throws it up over the lowest-hanging branch, a good four meters above ground—about thirteen feet high. It takes her three tries to get the noose end over the branch. Then she raises up the other side of the rope as the noose side lowers down to her. Once she has it in her hand, she slides the straight end of the rope through the noose. Then she pulls down on the straight end slowly, careful to avoid any snags, as the noose end slowly rises again. On the branch, the two sides come together in a knot. ~ Bill Clinton,
1226:The world citizen is a small leaf on the giant tree of life. They do not see a difference between the branch they were born on and the remaining branches on the tree, because they understand well that we are are all connected to the same roots. The world citizen sees each section of the world as part of their arm, leg, eyes, and heart. They do not class, contain or separate themselves or their identity by ethnicity or religion -- because they see their existence as a small part of a greater whole. When asked about their religion, the world citizen simply replies: 'My heart. ~ Suzy Kassem,
1227:Department of the Army Alternate Command Element (DACE), a plan whereby the branch’s leadership would be reconstituted by the faculty and staff at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, just outside Harrisburg. DACE, known on campus under its cover name, the Operations Group, and overseen by the school’s commandant, hosted a permanent staff of about twenty soldiers and officers in several on-campus buildings, though it didn’t have hardened facilities. The Air Force had a similar program set up at the Air University at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. •  •  • As ~ Garrett M Graff,
1228:Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy. ~ Seth Lloyd,
1229:I fell to wondering if it would feel very terrible to burn one's own logs, or if the excitement of it would make up for the feeling that a tree had died? If it was a favourite tree, surely one could never burn it? To burn a branch which has whispered to you on summer nights--which has sheltered you, which you have caressed...no, that would be impossible. Besides--it is much more fun to climb the hedge that leads to your neighbours' fields, and creep round at dusk, to the old ash that was blown down last March, and gather a great bundle of wood which doesn't belong to you. ~ Beverley Nichols,
1230:You who wronged a simple man
Bursting into laughter at the crime,
And kept a pack of fools around you
To mix good and evil, to blur the line,


Though everyone bowed down before you,
Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way,
Striking gold medals in your honor,
Glad to have survived another day,


Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.


And you’d have done better with a winter dawn,
A rope, and a branch bowed beneath your weight. ~ Czes aw Mi osz,
1231:You Who Wronged
You who wronged a simple man
Bursting into laughter at the crime,
And kept a pack of fools around you
To mix good and evil, to blur the line,
Though everyone bowed down before you,
Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way,
Striking gold medals in your honor,
Glad to have survived another day,
Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You can kill one, but another is born.
The words are written down, the deed, the date.
And you’d have done better with a winter dawn,
A rope, and a branch bowed beneath your weight.
~ Czeslaw Milosz,
1232:The way to peer into life’s past is to examine fossils and to determine when a branch was first created by assessing the age of rocks when a certain fossil was formed. The oldest known fossils are of bacteria that apparently lived in ponds or a shallow sea located in what is now western Australia. They are fossil mats of bacteria, called stromatolites, whose metabolism led them to excrete calcium carbonate, chalk, the stuff of seashells and limestone. The ancient ponds dried up for some climatological reason, and these bacterial mats turned to stone. They’re 3.5 billion years old. As ~ Bill Nye,
1233:There’s water in their lungs. Mr. Bell holds her now and afterward. There’s water in their ears and a voice warm as a mother’s should be. They fall toward the voice, through the deepest lake in the Adirondacks. “When you were a baby,” the voice says, “you used to point at birds.” The gesture of their hands entwined, reaching up through their descent, clawing for the disappearing surface, could be misconstrued as fingers pointing out a goldfinch on a branch, a red cardinal nosing the grass for some seeds. Later that night the lake freezes, sealing the scar under a dusting of snow. ~ Samantha Hunt,
1234:who made no demands on her body. Life might not be full of joy, but Bethanie was satisfied with her bargain. Chapter Nine Josh clung to exposed tree roots along the muddy riverbank, trying to regain some of his strength and bring his breathing back to normal. Though he was a strong swimmer, the current had fought him for every inch. While rain poured down violently, Josh could barely tell when his head was above water. He rolled over in the sticky mud and grabbed a low tree branch. He knew he was far downstream from the herd; but, at least he was alive. As dawn changed the sky from ~ Jodi Thomas,
1235:She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid. ~ Zora Neale Hurston,
1236:The first branch, the legislative, consists of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate; this branch writes the laws of the United States. The executive branch, which consists of the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, the Executive Office of the President, and all of the cabinet departments, is tasked with enforcing those laws. The judicial branch, which consists of the United States Supreme Court and the federal courts as designated by Congress, has the responsibility of administering justice through a court system. ~ Ben Carson,
1237:Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as impossible as that would be under any realistic scenarios. No national security emergency exists relative to climate that would warrant increased governmental control of energy production. Today's Americans have an obligation to future Americans to elect leaders who do not believe in an omnipotent government but believe, as did the Founders, in limited government, and in the preservation of liberty and the natural rights of the people. ~ Harrison Schmitt,
1238:Dear Sir: My ten years of bank experience should be of interest to a rapidly growing bank like yours. In various capacities in bank operations with the Bankers Trust Company in New York, leading to my present assignment as Branch Manager, I have acquired skills in all phases of banking including depositor relations, credits, loans and administration. I will be relocating to Phoenix in May and I am sure I can contribute to your growth and profit. I will be in Phoenix the week of April 3 and would appreciate the opportunity to show you how I can help your bank meet its goals. Sincerely, ~ Dale Carnegie,
1239:I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power... It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of [the Federal government] are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic. ~ Thomas Jefferson,
1240:In Pakistan both branches [of the Ahmadis] fell to persecutions, sanction by the state in 1984 with General Zia Ul-Haq's Ordinance XX, which forbade Ahmadis of either branch from calling themselves Muslims, their religion Islam, or their temples mosques. Under penalty of law, they could not perform the call to pryaer, pray in the manner of Muslims, quote the Qur'an or hadith, greet each other with "as-salamu alaikum," or receite the shahadah... In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, it was illegal for some people to say, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger. ~ Michael Muhammad Knight,
1241:Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die. ~ Robert Zubrin,
1242:The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of all connection with Christianity.

Christianity must pervade not merely all nations, but also all of human thought. The Christian cannot therefore be indifferent to any branch of ernest human endeavor. It must all be brought into some relation to the gospel. It must be studied either in order to be demonstrated false or else in order to be made useful to the kingdom of God.

The church must not only seek to conquer every man for Christ, but also the whole of the man. ~ J Gresham Machen,
1243:She nudged a porch floorboard with her foot to set the swing in motion, and she swung slowly back and forth, absently tracing the familiar, sandy-feeling undersides of the armrests with her fingertips. Her eyes were on Dane now; she watched him with a distant feeling of sorrow. She saw how he dropped his cigarette, how he ground it beneath his heel, how he picked up his axe and sauntered over to a branch. What a world, what a world. And then the line that came after that one: “Who would have thought,” the witch had asked, “that a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? ~ Anne Tyler,
1244:Man!" he snapped. "A man's cub. Look!" Directly in front of him, holding on by a low branch, stood a naked brown baby who could just walk—as soft and as dimpled a little atom as ever came to a wolf's cave at night. He looked up into Father Wolf's face, and laughed. "Is that a man's cub?" said Mother Wolf. "I have never seen one. Bring it here." A Wolf accustomed to moving his own cubs can, if necessary, mouth an egg without breaking it, and though Father Wolf's jaws closed right on the child's back not a tooth even scratched the skin as he laid it down among the cubs. "How little! How naked, ~ Rudyard Kipling,
1245:Passing The Night At Headquarters
Clear autumn at headquarters,
wu-tung trees cold beside the well;
I spend the night alone in the river city,
using up all of the candles.
Sad bugle notes sound through the long night
as I talk to myself;
glorious moon hanging in mid-sky
but who looks?
The endless dust-storm of troubles
cuts off news and letters;
the frontier passes are perilous,
travel nearly impossible.
I have already suffered ten years,
ten years of turmoil and hardship;
now I am forced to accept a perch
on this one peaceful branch.
~ Du Fu,
1246:But now I could not gainsay the images of him, his silvered hair stained with blood and pale gray tissue, a bubble of crimsoned spittle forming on his lips as he tried to mouth the words of his last prayer. His eyes, his desperate eyes, searching my face as the Berber held me, the arm across my throat hard and wide as a tree branch. Somehow, I struggled free of that grip just long enough to shout the words for my father, the words that he no longer had the breath to say: “God is most great! There is no God but God!” I felt a blow and fell to my knees, still crying out for him: “I rely on God! ~ Geraldine Brooks,
1247:The Constitution of the Unitied States of America Preamble We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article I - The Legislative Branch Section 1 - The Legislature All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. ~ Founding Fathers,
1248:The Mexican Eve is called Suchiquecal. A messenger from heaven announced to her that she should bear a son, who should bruise the serpent's head. He presents her with a rose. This was the commencement of and Age, which was called the Age of Roses."

(Is this the age when angels became the husbands of pure-minded women--an age fitly symboled by the rose, the flower of perfect love? Note, also, the resemblance between this tradition and the Christian tradition, concerning the angel's offering Mary a lily-branch at the Annunciation. Evidently, these are two different aspects of the same symbolism.) ~ Ida Craddock,
1249:Yo momma is so fat… she sat on a rainbow and made skittles.   Yo momma is so fat… she had to be baptized at sea world.   Yo momma is so fat… it took me a bus and two trains just to get on her good side.   Yo momma is so fat… she uses an air balloon for a parachute.   Yo momma is so fat… she was going to Wal-Mart, tripped over Kmart, and landed right on Target!!!   Yo momma is so fat… her measurements are 26-34-28, and her other arm is just as big!   Yo momma is so fat… she broke a branch in her family tree!   Yo momma is so fat… when she wore a blue and green sweater, everyone thought she was Planet Earth. ~ Various,
1250:The Fox and the Grapes


ONE hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the things to quench my thirst,” quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: “I am sure they are sour.”
“IT IS EASY TO DESPISE WHAT YOU CANNOT GET. ~ Aesop,
1251:Hello there," Inigo hollered when he could wait no more.
The man in black glanced up and grunted.
"I've been watching you."
The man in black nodded.
"Slow going," Inigo said.
"Look, I don't mean to be rude," the man in black said finally, "but I'm rather busy just now, so try not to distract me."
"I'm sorry," Inigo said.
The man in black grunted again.
"I don't suppose you could speed things up," Inigo said.
"If you want to speed things up so much," the man in black said, clearly quite angry now, "you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find some other helpful thing to do. ~ William Goldman,
1252:I got up to get us a drink of water and as I stood in the kitchen in the early morning light, running the water out of the tap, I looked out at the hills at the back of the town, at the trees on the hills, at the bushes in the garden, at the birds, at the brand new leaves on a branch, at a cat on a fence, at the bits of wood that made the fence, and I wondered if everything I saw, if maybe every landscape we casually glanced at, was the outcome of an ecstasy we didn't even know was happening, a love-act moving at a speed slow and steady enough for us to be deceived into thinking it was just everyday reality. ~ Ali Smith,
1253:Nature forms patterns. Some are orderly in space but disorderly in time, others orderly in time but disorderly in space. Some patterns are fractal, exhibiting structures self-similar in scale. Others give rise to steady states or oscillating ones. Pattern formation has become a branch of physics and of materials science, allowing scientists to model the aggregation of particles into clusters, the fractured spread of electrical discharges, and the growth of crystals in ice and metal alloys. The dynamics seem so basic—shapes changing in space and time—yet only now are the tools available to understand them. ~ James Gleick,
1254:But then I have long since grown accustomed to the thought that what we call dreams is semi-reality, the promise of reality, a foreglimpse and a whiff of it; that is they contain, in a very vague, diluted state, more genuine reality than our vaunted waking life which, in its turn, is semi-sleep, an evil drowsiness into which penetrate in grotesque disguise the sounds and sights of the real world, flowing beyond the periphery of the mind—as when you hear during sleep a dreadful insidious tale because a branch is scraping on the pane, or see yourself sinking into snow because your blanket is sliding off. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,
1255:Lucien was walking at my side. The only live things I had ever owned were lovely pricks, their roots buried in
black moss. I cherished several such, and I wanted them in all the flower of their strength. These plants were
my pride. Such was my fervor that their bearers themselves were amazed at their unwonted beauty.
Nevertheless, each remained fastened, by a mysterious and solid base, to the male whose chief branch it was;
he owned it more than I did. It was his. Some flies were buzzing around Lucien. My hand mentally made the
gesture of chasing them away. This plant was going to belong to me. ~ Jean Genet,
1256:We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind—mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality. ~ J G Ballard,
1257:A SUDDEN GOLDFINCH The branch is bare and black against the fog; Cold droplets bead along the twigs, and fall. The hours are passing, ready to be gone, And now they’re past, dissolved, beyond recall, Beyond my reach. A sudden goldfinch clings And bends the twig so slightly with its weight It seems as if it’s painted on: its wings  In motion are a glimpse of summer, bright, Quick, and now already gone. This moment, So brief but still so clear against the blur Of unattended time, in memory Connects the things that are, the things that were. Fleeting as it is, almost a ghost, It may be time is never truly lost. ~ Holly Ordway,
1258:A World Worth Living In
One who claims that he knows about it
Tells me the earth is a vale of sin;
But I and the bees, and the birds we doubt it,
And think it a world worth living in.
-----Whatever you want, if you wish for it long,
With constant yearning and ceaseless desire,
If your wish soars upward on wings so strong
That they never grow languid, never tire,
Why, over the storm cloud and out of the dark
It will come flying some day to you,
As the dove with the olive branch flew to the ark,
And the wish you've been dreaming,
it will come true.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
1259:Summer is the season of motion, winter is the season of form. In summer everything moves save the fixed and inert. Down the hill flows the west wind, making wavelets in the shorter grass and great billows in the standing hay; the tree in full leaf sways its heavy boughs below and tosses its leaves above; the weed by the gate bends and turns when the wind blows down the road. It is the shadow of moving things that we usually see, and the shadows are themselves in motion. The shadow of a branch, speckled through with light, wavers across the lawn, the sprawling shadow of the weed moves and sways across the dust. ~ Henry Beston,
1260:An Islamic university...structure is different from a Western University; [its] conception of what constitutes knowledge is different from what Western philosophers set forth as knowledge; [its] aims and aspirations are different from Western conceptions. The purpose of higher education is not, like in the West, to produce the complete citizen, but rather, as in Islam, to produce the complete man, or the universal man.... A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge. ~ Syed Muhammad Naquib al Attas,
1261:I know what it's like. I've seen it played out a zillion times. You're waiting for that magical day when someone makes the connection and recognizes who you really are. Maybe they'll first catch the sparkle in your eye. Or perhaps they'll marvel at your insights and the depth of your spirit. Someone who will help you connect the dots, believe in yourself, and make sense of it all. Someone who will understand you, approve of you, and unhesitatingly give you a leg up so that life can pluck your ready, ripened self from the branch of magnificence. Well, I'm here to tell you, your wait is over. That someone, is you. ~ Mike Dooley,
1262:Foolishness? No, It’s Not.

Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. To do this I have to climb branch by branch and write down the numbers in a little book. So I suppose, from their point of view, it’s reasonable that my friends say: what foolishness! She’s got her head in the clouds again.

But it’s not. Of course I have to give up, but by then I’m half crazy with the wonder of it — the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise. ~ Mary Oliver,
1263:A panther poised in the cypress tree about to jump is a
panther poised in a cypress tree about to jump.

The panther is a poem of fire green eyes and a heart charged
by four winds of four directions.

The panther hears everything in the dark: the unspoken
tears of a few hundred human years, storms that will break
what has broken his world, a bluebird swaying on a branch a
few miles away.

He hears the death song of his approaching prey:

I will always love you, sunrise.
I belong to the black cat with fire green eyes.
There, in the cypress tree near the morning star.
~ Joy Harjo,
1264:I knew I was going to fall out of the tree. Girls as athletically challenged as I was should never climb trees. At the very least, I was going to snag my underwear on a branch and be stuck wearing only a tank top high up in the tree. I shuddered in horror. I was NOT that kind of girl. I had a decent rear-end, but I don’t think anyone’s butt looks good climbing trees. At the very worst, I would impale myself on a sharp branch like a pig on a spit. Knowing me, both would happen, and I would soon be pantiless and impaled. I could just see the story in the local newspaper: “Local Woman Found Dead and Half Naked in Tree. ~ Amy Harmon,
1265:there is always that space there
just before they get to us
that space
that fine relaxer
the breather
while say
flopping on a bed
thinking of nothing
or say
pouring a glass of water from the
spigot
while entranced by
nothing

that
gentle pure
space

it's worth

centuries of
existence

say

just to scratch your neck
while looking out the window at
a bare branch

that space
there
before they get to us
ensures
that
when they do
they won't
get it all

ever.
--It's Ours ~ Charles Bukowski,
1266:The lion landed in the snow well below the outcrop, at least thirty feet below where he’d been lying on the tree branch. The same as jumping from the roof of a three-story building. I saw him just as he hit, disappearing in an explosion of soft snow. Before I could picture how broken he would be, he erupted from the snow in another leap that covered twenty feet, straight down the side of the hill we’d toiled up. His body began to ball up in mid-air and he crashed down into the snow again, only to reappear a moment later, stretched out and bounding. In a few seconds he was into the bottom of the draw and out of sight. ~ Pete Fromm,
1267:I could go on and on with the intimate details about the various lives of people on the super-ambulance, but what good is more information?

I agree with Kilgore Trout about realistic novels and their accumulations of nit-picking details. In Trout's novel, 'The Pan-Galactic Memory Bank,' the hero is on a space ship two hundred miles long and sixty-two miles in diameter. He gets a realistic novel out of the branch library in his neighborhood. He reads about sixty pages of it, and then he takes it back.

The librarian asks him why he doesn't like it, and he says to her, 'I already know about human beings. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1268:You really pounded him, Ma,” Ike said. He dropped a heavy hackberry branch and ran over and threw his arms around her, nearly knocking her farther down the hill. Abe slammed into her from the other side, thus balancing her again. The rest of the boys swarmed her. “Wow, Ma, we saw you beating that man up. I never knew you were tough like that.” Mark looked up at her, his eyes shining with admiration. Grace thought of all the times she’d tried to get this little scamp to respect her when she was teaching school. Apparently all she’d needed to do was get in a fistfight on Mosqueros’s Main Street and he’d have behaved. ~ Mary Connealy,
1269:Of course, the set of logically consistent mathematical structures is many times larger than the set of physical principles. Therefore, some mathematical structures, such as number theory (which some mathematicians claim to be the purest branch of mathematics), have never been incorporated into any physical theory. Some argue that this situation may always exist: Perhaps the human mind will always be able to conceive of logically consistent structures that cannot be expressed through any physical principle. However, there are indications that string theory may soon incorporate number theory into its structure as well. ~ Michio Kaku,
1270:She also hated Christians, wanted to punish churches, and thought that taking out a minor sect, like the Branch Davidians, would be a good test of her theories on how to get rid of Christians. Oner hadn’t expected a backlash from the public, however, or from Congress. She did get to keep her job in spite of the people who were against her. Gary thought he could do better later on, since he knew people who were anti-Christian. They were infiltrating churches and schools, as teachers or church staff. Gary figured that by the time he took power, taking out Christians would not be a big deal to anyone in the United States. ~ Cliff Ball,
1271:I Have Come To You Delighted
I have come to you, delighted,
To tell you that sun has risen,
That its light has warmly started
To fulfil on leaves its dancing;
To tell you that wood’s awaken
In its every branch and leafage,
And with every bird is shaken,
Thirsty of the springy image;
To tell you that I’ve come now,
As before, with former passion,
That my soul again is bound
To serve you and your elation;
That the charming breath of gladness
Came to me from all-all places,
I don’t know what I’ll sing, else,
But my song’s coming to readiness.
~ Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet,
1272:Life is a total process, the inner as well as the outer; the outer definitely affects the inner, but the inner invariably overcomes the outer. What you are, you bring about outwardly. The outer and the inner cannot be separated and kept in watertight compartments, for they are constantly interacting upon each other; but the inner craving, the hidden pursuits and motives, are always more powerful. Life is not dependent upon political or economic activity; life is not a mere outward show, any more than a tree is the leaf or the branch. Life is a total process whose beauty is to be discovered only in its integration. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti,
1273:Ah,” I said. “Those are the cairns.” If you don’t know what a cairn is, I am here to tell you. A cairn is a small, artful pile of stones that you see around in nature from time to time. They are a kind of folk art. Often hikers will build them as messages to other hikers yet to come. A little cairn will stand there at a branch in the trail as if to say, “Go this way for beautiful hiking!” Or “Do not go this way because of bear nesting.” It’s not clear what, really, the cairns are trying to say. And also “bear nesting” is not a thing. The cairns are less helpful than they are spooky and quiet and never really on your side. ~ John Hodgman,
1274:If fear hinders us even in grade school, no wonder it takes such discipline—some people even call it a practice—to turn off that inner critic in adulthood and return to a place of openness. In Korean Zen, the belief that it is good to branch out beyond what we already know is expressed in a phrase that means, literally, “not know mind.” To have a “not know mind” is a goal of creative people. It means you are open to the new, just as children are. Similarly, in Japanese Zen, that idea of not being constrained by what we already know is called “beginner’s mind.” And people practice for years to recapture and keep ahold of it. ~ Ed Catmull,
1275:You may, in fact, observe that nobody is quite at ease in dealing with a policeman: the man represents, however genially, with howsoever bright adornments of figured brass and rubicundity, an oppression that is upon us; and while in theory the relation between the legally honest taxpayer and his two hired and liveried retainers, the policeman and the mail-carrier, is the same, one notes in practise a marked difference. The courts and officers of the law, and all legal processes, are matters with which we as if by instinct avoid involvement: for, here again, man occupies somewhat the position of a Frankenstein. . . . ~ James Branch Cabell,
1276:The function of a mathematician, then, is simply to observe the facts about his own intricate system of reality, that astonishingly beautiful complex of logical relations which forms the subject-matter of his science, as if he were an explorer looking at a distant range of mountains, and to record the results of his observations in a series of maps, each of which is a branch of pure mathematics. ...Among them there perhaps none quite so fascinating, with quite the astonishing contrasts of sharp outline and shade, as that which constitutes the theory of numbers. ~ G. H. Hardy, "The Theory of Numbers," Nature (Sep 16, 1922) Vol. 110 p. 381.,
1277:None of the suggestions in this chapter is remotely actionable today, because government has been co-opted in what is known as “elite capture.” By this we mean that the government bends the regulatory systems in the food industry’s favor, to maintain a decidedly lopsided power structure. Either the legislative branch won’t act because the food industry is paying it off, the executive branch won’t act because it’s afraid of the political repercussions, or the populace won’t act because as far as they are concerned, “a calorie is still a calorie” and they still believe in personal responsibility—and they’re addicted anyway. ~ Robert H Lustig,
1278:A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall that “Life is full of endless possibilities.” I tried valiantly nog to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom, and I calmly washed them down with the rest of a Heineken, smiled and concentrated on the dart game that was going on in the corner. Needless to say, she did not live to see her sophomore year.That winter, her body was found floating in the Charles River, decapitated, her head hung from a tree on the bank, her hair knotted around a low-hanging branch, three miles away. ~ Bret Easton Ellis,
1279:There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace—those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death. ~ Frank Herbert,
1280:The actual operation of intelligence is thus beyond the possibility of being determined or conditioned by factors that can be included in any knowable law. So, we see that the ground of intelligence must be in the undetermined and unknown flux, that is also the ground of all definable forms of matter. Intelligence is thus not deducible or explainable on the basis of any branch of knowledge (e.g., physics or biology). Its origin is deeper and more inward than any knowable order that could describe it. (Indeed, it has to comprehend the very order of definable forms of matter through which we would hope to comprehend intelligence.) ~ David Bohm,
1281:He came away with an exasperated sense of failure. He denounced parliamentary government root and branch that night. Parliament was doomed. The fact that it had not listened to Rud was only one little conclusive fact in a long indictment. "It has become a series of empty forms," he said. "All over the world, always, the sawdust of reality is running out of the shapes of quasi-public things. Not one British citizen in a thousand watches what is done in Parliament; not one in a thousand Americans follows the discourses of Congress. Interest has gone. Every election in the past thirty years has been fought on gross misunderstandings. ~ H G Wells,
1282:There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace – those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death. ~ Frank Herbert,
1283:There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death. ~ Frank Herbert,
1284:The parable teaches us the object of the union. The branches are for fruit and fruit alone. "Every branch that beareth not fruit He taketh away." The branch needs leaves for the maintenance of its own life, and the perfection of its fruit: the fruit itself it bears to give away to those around. As the believer enters into his calling as a branch, he sees that he has to forget himself, and to live entirely for his fellow-men. To love them, to seek for them, and to save them, Jesus came: for this every branch on the Vine has to live as much as the Vine itself. It is for fruit, much fruit, that the Father has made us one with Jesus. ~ Andrew Murray,
1285:Why, it seemed to me I had lost the most of myself; and there was left only a brain which played with ideas, and a body that went delicately down pleasant ways. And I could not believe as my fellows believed, nor could I love them, nor could I detect anything in aught they said or did save their exceeding folly: for I had lost their cordial common faith of what use they made of half-hours and months and years... I had lost faith in the importance of my own actions, too. There was a little time of which the passing might be made endurable; beyond gaped unpredictable darkness: and that was all there was of certainty anywhere. ~ James Branch Cabell,
1286:He swung his leg over and reached for me, pulling me into a kiss. He started slow, shifting, checking my balance. I backed up a little and swung my leg over, so we were both straddling.
“Better?” I said.
“Much.”
He gave me a real kiss then, deep and hungry, and I think the branch could have snapped and I wouldn’t have noticed until I hit the ground. Maybe not even then.
We kissed, barely coming up for air, until a giggle sounded below us. Then a singsong voice.
“Rafe and Maya sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g.”
“Annie…” Rafe peered down at his sister, beaming up at us. “I thought I asked you to stay inside today. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1287:Come down here so I can kill you, the man said to the moon, for you have stolen my wife. The moon laughed. Every woman is my wife first, he said. So in fact you stole this wife from me. This only made the man angrier and he climbed the tree to the highest branch and pulled at the raffia string. It would not move so he began to climb the string toward the moon. Soon his arms grew heavy and though he had climbed far from the tree he still was no closer to the moon. Let go now, the moon said. And the man, who had no more strength left, let go and fell directly into his canoe and paddled home to share his wife, as all men did, with the moon. ~ Lily King,
1288:Suddenly Goosefeather leaned closer. “Like fire, you will blaze through the forest,” he hissed. “What?” Bluepaw flinched away. Had he gone mad? “The burning branch was a sign from StarClan.” His eyes glittered. “You are fire, Bluepaw, and you will blaze through the forest.” Alarmed, Bluepaw backed away. What was he talking about? “But beware!” She stiffened. “Even the most powerful flames can be destroyed by water.” “What do you mean?” “I’m telling you what the burning branch meant,” he growled. Don’t be silly! This was the cat who had told his Clan that a vole’s fur meant they should attack WindClan, and look what had happened! Snowpaw ~ Erin Hunter,
1289:The seed of a tree falls from the safety of its branch onto concrete. Another finds ground but there is no rain. Another is chewed up and eaten by an animal. Another is so lucky as to sprout but then is thwarted under a falling log. None of these things is a tree. The seedlings of animals, including humans, are no less voluminous and their deaths no more tragic. This process of selection is repeated naturally and necessarily for every actualized human being as for every mighty oak. For every tree in the forest, there are thousands of tree dreams deferred. To pull out the hearse and have a funeral for every aborted fetus is indicative of ~ Ani DiFranco,
1290:A crack of a tree limb and falling foliage forced me to open my eyes. A tree fell right above my head, frightened birds flew out of the leaves and a cackle of laughter echoed across the ravine – extreme happiness mingled with the loathing hate. Selfishly, I prayed the fight would end in my favor and quickly.
But then suddenly I heard something that sounded like a sizzling firework and felt someone’s surprise turned into fear… then nothing. The evil vanished. I breathed a sigh of relief too soon as the branch shifted in the earth next to me.
“Hurry!” I cried, but it was too late.
I screamed as I fell, knowing I was about to die. ~ Brenda Pandos,
1291:You remember your history, don’t you, son? How many times did a wicked man come to power and suddenly find his kingdom too small? The Praxons did it in the Third Epoch. The Shriveners did it when Tilmus the Bent took the throne, and look what happened to the Furrows of Shreve. There’s nothing left but the Woes, a terrible waste where there was once a garden the size of an ocean.” Oskar stepped over a fallen branch. “No, when a king forgets who he is, he looks for himself in the rubble of conquered cities. He is haunted by a bottomless pit in his soul, and he will pour the blood of nations into it until the pit swallows the man himself. ~ Andrew Peterson,
1292:At first it seemed that the bizarre afternoon had passed without consequence. There were no lawsuits, and my parents never spoke to me about it. But somebody somewhere must have mentioned it, and the talk must have eventually made its way to an exceedingly interested party. I found out later that three months after my visit to hospital, my father received a letter from an obscure branch of the government. I like to think that he and my mother talked it over, but the end result was that my father and I were driven to an old stone building in the City, and I was introduced to Lady Linda Farrier and Sir Henry Wattleman of the Checquy Group. ~ Daniel O Malley,
1293:To learn is as beautiful as to live. Do not be afraid to lose yourself in minds greater than your own! Do not sit brooding anxiously over your own individuality or shut yourself out from influences that draw you powerfully for fear that they may sweep you along and submerge your innermost pet peculiarities in their mighty surge! Never fear! The individuality that can be lost in the sifting and reshaping of a healthy development is only a flaw; it is a branch grown in the dark, which is distinctive only so long as it retains its sickly pallor. And it is by the sound growth in yourself that you must live. Only the sound can grow great. ~ Jens Peter Jacobsen,
1294:To learn is as beautiful as to live. Do not be afraid to lose yourself in minds greater than your own. Do not sit brooding anxiously over your own individuality or shut yourself out from influences that draw you powerfully for fear that they may sweep you along and submerge your innermost pet peculiarities in their mighty surge. Never fear. The individuality that can be lost in the sifting and reshaping of a healthy development is only a flaw; it is a branch grown in the dark, which is distinctive only so long as it retains its sickly pallor. And it is by this sound growth in yourself that you must live. Only the sound can grow great. ~ Jens Peter Jacobsen,
1295:The teacher asks a question.
You know the answer, you suspect
you are the only one in the classroom
who knows the answer, because the person
in question is yourself, and on that
you are the greatest living authority,
but you don’t raise your hand.
You raise the top of your desk
and take out an apple.
You look out the window.
You don’t raise your hand and there is
some essential beauty in your fingers,
which aren’t even drumming, but lie
flat and peaceful.
The teacher repeats the question.
Outside the window, on an overhanging branch,
a robin is ruffling its feathers
and spring is in the air. ~ Mary Ruefle,
1296:Butterflies prove that God gives second chances. Because a butterfly spends most of its life as a caterpillar, scooting along on the ground, barely getting by. When a caterpillar sees a butterfly he thinks how wonderful it would be to fly. And then one day he gets tired. Very tired. He builds a little room, curls up inside, and takes a nap. Deep in his heart he wonders if maybe that's all. Maybe life is over. But one day the caterpillar wakes up, and God has done an amazing thing. The caterpillar hakes off the little room and feels something on his back. This time when he goes a bit down the tree branch he doesn't scoot like before. He flies! ~ Karen Kingsbury,
1297:For Toynbee, finally, the "higher religions" displaced societies or civilizations as the units that gave meaning to history. While brashly insisting on his naively English empirical reliance on facts, which he amassed in prodigious quantity, still in his personal quest for salvation he had developed his own universal apocalyptic view. His reassurance of universal salvation had wide appeal in an age of two world wars. Scholars have objected less to Toynbee's vague definitions of society and civilization than to his tendency to simplify the study of history into a branch of theodicy-an answer to Job, a science of justifying God's ways to man. ~ Daniel J Boorstin,
1298:To learn is as beautiful as to live.
Do not be afraid to lose yourself in minds greater than your own. Do not sit brooding anxiously over your own individuality or shut yourself out from influences that draw you powerfully for fear that they may sweep you along and submerge your innermost pet peculiarities in their mighty surge. Never fear. The individuality that can be lost in the sifting and reshaping of a healthy development is only a flaw; it is a branch grown in the dark, which is distinctive only so long as it retains its sickly pallor. And it is by this sound growth in yourself that you must live. Only the sound can grow great. ~ Jens Peter Jacobsen,
1299:But the central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library was still a place of wonders to Tess, even if the book budget had been slashed and the hours cut. Her parents had made a lot of mistakes, a fact Tess compulsively shared on first dates, but she gave them credit for doing one thing right: Starting when she was eight, they gave her a library card and dropped her off at the downtown Pratt every Saturday while they shopped. Twenty-one years later, Tess still entered through the children's entrance on the side, pausing to toss a penny in the algae-coated fish pond, then climbing the stairs to the main hall. If she could be married here, she would. ~ Laura Lippman,
1300:Sonnet-Ix
Another day of rest, and I sit here
Among the trees, green mounds, and leaves as sere
As my own blasted hopes. There was a time
When Love and perfect Happiness did chime
Like two sweet sounds upon this blessed day;
But one has flown forever, far away
From this poor Earth's unsatisfied desires
To love eternal, and the sacred fires
With which the other lighted up my mind
Have faded out and left no trace behind,
But dust and bitter ashes. Like a bark
Becalmed, I anchor through the midnight dark,
Still hoping for another dawn of Love.
Bring back my olive branch of Happiness, O dove!
~ Charles Sangster,
1301:Eliza grabbed on to a branch and began to climb, a grin stealing over her face when she heard Agatha muttering behind her. “What’s the matter?” “Split a seam.” Eliza’s grin widened as she continued to climb, realizing that this was certainly an unusual moment to be amused. She reached the window and pushed on it, releasing a sigh of relief when it opened. She swung from the branch and pulled herself through the window, Agatha following a few seconds behind. “Did you hear that?” Agatha whispered. “Hear what?” Eliza whispered back. “My pants ripped again.” Eliza stifled a laugh and cautiously edged her way through the room, using her hands to guide her way. ~ Jen Turano,
1302:But a man who does none of these things, who does not even try to do them, who never attempts to learn the rudiments of any branch of knowledge so that he may at least do what he can towards promoting it—such a one, born as he is into riches, is a mere idler and thief of time, a contemptible fellow. He will not even be happy, because, in his case, exemption from need delivers him up to the other extreme of human suffering, boredom, which is such martyrdom to him, that he would have been better off if poverty had given him something to do. And as he is bored he is apt to be extravagant, and so lose the advantage of which he showed himself unworthy. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,
1303:Give me all of you!!! I don’t want so much of your time, so much of your talents and money, and so much of your work. I want YOU!!! ALL OF YOU!! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to KILL IT! No half measures will do. I don’t want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to me, give yourself to me and I will make of you a new self---in my image. Give me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart. ~ C S Lewis,
1304:To Vernon Lee
On Bellosguardo, when the year was young,
We wandered, seeking for the daffodil
And dark anemone, whose purples fill
The peasant's plot, between the corn-shoots sprung.
Over the grey, low wall the olive flung
Her deeper greyness ; far off, hill on hill
Sloped to the sky, which, pearly-pale and still,
Above the large and luminous landscape hung.
A snowy blackthorn flowered beyond my reach;
You broke a branch and gave it to me there;
I found for you a scarlet blossom rare.
Thereby ran on of Art and Life our speech;
And of the gifts the gods had given to each-Hope unto you, and unto me Despair.
~ Amy Levy,
1305:Just beyond the opening the cave was higher, and as the boat floated into the dim interior they found themselves on quite an extensive branch of the sea. For a time neither of them spoke and only the soft lapping of the water against the sides of the boat was heard. A beautiful sight met the eyes of the two adventurers and held them dumb with wonder and delight. It was not dark in this vast cave, yet the light seemed to come from underneath the water, which all around them glowed with an exquisite sapphire color. Where the little waves crept up the sides of the rocks they shone like brilliant jewels, and every drop of spray seemed a gem fit to deck a queen. ~ L Frank Baum,
1306:music stopped, and I felt my heart constrict, like I’d lost something precious. I took another step, and another, until I could see through the leaves. That’s when I realized the singer was a person. A little girl. She was plain, with brown hair the same color as mine. But hers was ratted around her face like she’d never seen a brush, and she had dirt smeared across her cheeks and nose. Too thin, I thought, as she climbed over the edge of the bundled mess of sticks and out onto a branch to see me better. She was awfully close to the slender branches that I knew wouldn’t hold the weight of a kid, even a skinny little girl. I had to get her to come down before ~ Nikki Loftin,
1307:For the first time in ten years, the March family gathered to perform the Twelfth Night Revels for the village of Blessingstoke, just as they had done in Master Shakespeare’s day. The dragon breathed fire while the Turkish Knight brandished his sword at St. George, and when it was finished, the resurrected saint and his sad dragon stood in tableau while the white-robed chorus, of which Portia and I made two, sang of the blood-berried holly and the sweetly clinging ivy. Rather like Brisbane and myself, I thought fancifully. Both evergreen and hardy, one sturdy, one tenacious, and forever undivided. But now there was a new little branch grafted to our union. ~ Deanna Raybourn,
1308:What happens to the wolf if his drüskelle is killed?”
Matthias was silent for a time. He did not want to think about this. Trass had been the creature of his heart.
“They are returned to the wild, but they will never be accepted by any pack.” And what was a wolf without a pack? The isenulf were not meant to live alone.
When had the other drüskelle decided Matthias was dead? Had it been Brum who had taken Trass north to the ice? The idea of his wolf left alone, howling for Matthias to come and take him home, carved a hollow ache in his chest. It felt like something had broken there and left an echo, the lonely snap of a branch too heavy with snow. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
1309:Being a woman is just be a leaf in the wind is perpetual search and verse is a fallen flower petal on the table one evening rain and restless hands of a drop of water that filters the perfume of a rock that emerges from a balcony with geraniums and roses is looking to be root moisture to keep the cup simply being woman is being land and seed is being tree branch and be eternally girl in the depths of the soul is the daughter and mother friend, sister, girlfriend, wife joy and tear being woman is simply being star rainbow and hot breakfast in the mornings and evenings is expected to be entangled balm and comfort to the bone meat scented with musk and eternal love. ~ Anonymous,
1310:[E]very individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation. The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected—and by physical relations of fascinating complexity. ~ Alan W Watts,
1311:Most Americans do not own passports. They’re not a naturally curious people. If you were to lock an American for sixty years in an empty underground bunker which contained nothing but a woolly tea cosy, the American would not even be curious enough to be tempted to see if the tea cosy would make a serviceable hat. They’re far more likely to arrest the tea cosy, intern it illegally in Guantanamo Bay, and then repeatedly anally rape it until such time that it admits that it was actually a member of an al-Qaeda training cell. Even though at the time of the alleged offence the tea cosy was actually working as a shop assistant in a branch of Currys in Wolverhampton. ~ Stewart Lee,
1312:Marxism must be eliminated root and branch. . . What matters above all is our defence policy, as one thing's certain: that our last battles will have to be fought by force. The [Nazi Party] organization was not created by me to bear arms, but for the moral education of the individual; this I achieve by combatting Marxism. . . National Socialism will not emulate Fascism: in Italy a militia had to be created as they were on the very threshold of a Bolshevik menace. My organization will solely confine itself to the ideological education of the masses, in order to satisfy the army's domestic and foreign policy needs. I am committed to the introduction of conscription ~ David Irving,
1313:God can and does use anything God chooses to get our attention.

Who's to say the hawk wasn't sent as an agent of grace to catch my wandering attention and quiet what Buddhists might call my “monkey mind,” which is more often than not swinging wildly from branch to branch on intellectual and emotional trees.

On the way back down the hiking trail after my encounter with the hawk in Big Sky, I stopped thinking and started looking and listening. That's when I realized winter was turning into spring before me.

Change was happening.

Creation, and perhaps the Creator, was speaking.

I just needed to be outside to hear the voice. ~ Cathleen Falsani,
1314:The DeVoses were devout members of the Dutch Reformed Church, a renegade branch of Calvinism brought to America by Dutch immigrants, many of whom settled around Lake Michigan. By the 1970s, the church had become a vibrant and, some would say, vitriolic center of the Christian Right. Members crusaded against abortion, homosexuality, feminism, and modern science that conflicted with their teachings. Extreme free-market economic theories rejecting government intervention and venerating hard work and success in the Calvinist tradition were also embraced by many followers. Within this community of extreme views, no family was more extreme or more active than the DeVoses. ~ Jane Mayer,
1315:Sympathy
Perched on the branch of a tree
Was a nightingale sad and lonely
'The night has drawn near', He was thinking
'I passed the day in flying around and feeding
How can I reach up to the nest
Darkness has enveloped everything'?
Hearing the nightingale wailing thus
A glow-worm lurking nearby spoke thus
'With my heart and soul ready to help I am
Though only an insignificant insect I am
Never mind if the night is dark
I shall shed light if the way is dark
God has bestowed a torch on me
He has given a shining lamp to me
The good in the world only those are
Ready to be useful to others who are
~ Allama Muhammad Iqbal,
1316:The House Of My Childhood
The house of my childhood stood empty
On a grey hill
All its furniture gone
Except my grandmother's grindstone
And the brass figurines of her gods
After the death of all birds
Bird-cries still fill the mind
After the city's erasure
A blur still peoples the air
In the colourless crack that comes before morning
In a place where nobody can sing
Words distribute their silence
Among intricately clustered glyphs
My grandmother's voice shivers on a bare branch
I toddle around the empty house
Spring and summer are both gone
Leaving an elderly infant
To explore the rooms of age
~ Dilip Chitre,
1317:Evening prayer

I spend my life sitting, like an angel in a barber's chair,
Holding a beer mug with deep-cut designs,
My neck and gut both bent, while in the air
A weightless veil of pipe smoke hangs.

Like steaming dung within an old dovecote
A thousand Dreams within me softly burn:
From time to time my heart is like some oak
Whose blood runs golden where a branch is torn.

And then, when I have swallowed down my Dreams
In thirty, forty mugs of beer, I turn
To satisfy a need I can't ignore,

And like the Lord of Hyssop and of Myrrh
I piss into the skies, a soaring stream
That consecrates a patch of flowering fern. ~ Arthur Rimbaud,
1318:To Winter
Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows!
There is a subtle sweetness in the sun,
The ripples on the stream's breast gaily run,
The wind more boisterously by me blows,
And each succeeding day now longer grows.
The birds a gladder music have begun,
The squirrel, full of mischief and of fun,
From maples' topmost branch the brown twig throws.
I read these pregnant signs, know what they mean:
I know that thou art making ready to go.
Oh stay! I fled a land where fields are green
Always, and palms wave gently to and fro,
And winds are balmy, blue brooks ever sheen,
To ease my heart of its impassioned woe.
~ Claude McKay,
1319:THE FOX AND THE CROW


A Crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese. Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, "What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds." The Crow was hugely flattered by this, and just to show the Fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese, of course, and the Fox, snatching it up, said, "You have a voice, madam, I see: what you want is wits. ~ Aesop,
1320:Another Day Of Rest, And I Sit Here
Another day of rest, and I sit here
Among the trees, green mounds, and leaves as sere
As my own blasted hopes. There was a time
When Love and perfect Happiness did chime
Like two sweet sounds upon this blessed day;
But one has flown forever, far away
From this poor Earth's unsatisfied desires
To love eternal, and the sacred fires
With which the other lighted up my mind
Have faded out and left no trace behind,
But dust and bitter ashes. Like a bark
Becalmed, I anchor through the midnight dark,
Still hoping for another dawn of Love.
Bring back my olive branch of Happiness, O dove!
~ Charles Sangster,
1321:I recall a battle once,’ said Dickens, looking up at a tree. 'In history, it was. And there was this company, see, and they was a ragtag of different squads and covered in mud in any case, and they found themselves hiding in a field of carrots. So as a badge they all pulled up carrots and stuck them on their helmets so’s they’d know who their friends were and incidentally have a nourishing snack for later, which is never to be sneezed at on a battlefield.’
'Well? So what?“ said Dibbler.
'So what’s wrong with a lilac flower?’ said Dickens, reaching up and pulling down a laden branch. 'Makes a spanking plume, even if you can’t eat it…’
And now, Vimes thought, it ends. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1322:If the past few months have taught me anything, it’s that friendship is a smoke screen. The people you think are solid turn out to be mirrors and light; and then you look down and realize there are others you took for granted, those who are your foundation. A year ago, I would have told you that Corinne and I were close, but that turned out to be proximity instead of connection. We were default acquaintances, buying each other Christmas gifts and going out for tapas on Thursday nights not because we had so much in common, but because we worked so hard and so long that it was easier to continue our shorthand conversation than to branch out and teach someone else the language. Odette ~ Jodi Picoult,
1323:Sunday “Well then, as I have just told you, they devoted each day of the week to productions in one or another special branch of knowledge—either works of their hands, or some other form of consciously designed being-manifestation “Thus, Monday was devoted to the first group, and this day was called the ‘day of religious and civil ceremonies’, “Tuesday was allotted to the second group, and was called the ‘day of architecture’, “Wednesday was called the ‘day of painting’, “Thursday, the ‘day of religious and popular dances’, “Friday, the ‘day of sculpture’, “Saturday, the ‘day of the mysteries’ or, as it was also called, the ‘day of the theater’, “Sunday, the ‘day of music and song ~ G I Gurdjieff,
1324:The Jews love their mythic connections. The Son of God, a Son of David, the original Messiah king of Israel.” Eleazer knew all too well about the promised Son of David.   “Behold, the days are coming, declares Yahweh, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.   “A son of Zeus!” said an amused Artabanus. “You jest,” said Antipas, “But you are more in on the joke than you realize.” Antipas wanted to ingratiate himself with the foreign ruler. He kept the amusement going like a master of chorus in a Greek play. “Rumors have been spreading that this Nazarene was born of a virgin! ~ Brian Godawa,
1325:Does moping actually help humans feel better?” We’ve been whispering since we saw the victims on the road. “I’m not moping,” I whisper back. “Of course you’re not. A girl like you, spending time with a warrior demigod like me. What’s to mope about? Leaving a wheelchair behind couldn’t possibly show up on the radar compared to that.” I nearly stumble over a fallen branch. “You have got to be kidding me.” “I never kid about my warrior demigod status.” “Oh. My. God.” I lower my voice, having forgotten to whisper. “You are nothing but a bird with an attitude. Okay, so you have a few muscles, I’ll grant you that. But you know, a bird is nothing but a barely evolved lizard. That’s what you are. ~ Susan Ee,
1326:Blood is messy when it comes out. inside it runs clean and looks blue in tubes that line our bodies, that split and branch like earth's river systems. Blood is ninety percent water. And like water it must move. Blood must flow, never stray or split or clot or divide -- lose any essential amount of itself while it distributes evenly through our bodies. But blood is messy when it comes out. It dries, and cracks in the air.

Native blood quantum was introduced in 1705 at the Virginia Colony. If you were at least half Native, you didn't have the same rights as white people. Blood quantum and tribal membership qualifications have since been turned over to individual tribes to decide. ~ Tommy Orange,
1327:Hamilton had always regarded the judiciary as the final fortress of liberty and the most vulnerable branch of government. John Marshall remedied that deficiency, and many of the great Supreme Court decisions he handed down were based on concepts articulated by Hamilton. In writing the decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803), Marshall established the principle of judicial review—the court’s authority to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional—drawing liberally on Hamilton’s Federalist number 78. His decision in the landmark case of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) owed a great deal to the doctrine of implied powers spelled out by Hamilton in his 1791 opinion on the legality of a central bank. ~ Ron Chernow,
1328:On Leaving Bruges
The city's steeple-towers remove away,
Each singly; as each vain infatuate Faith
Leaves God in heaven, and passes. A mere breath
Each soon appears, so far. Yet that which lay
The first is now scarce further or more grey
Than the last is. Now all are wholly gone.
The sunless sky has not once had the sun
Since the first weak beginning of the day.
The air falls back as the wind finishes,
And the clouds stagnate. On the water's face
The current breathes along, but is not stirred.
There is no branch that thrills with any bird.
Winter is to possess the earth a space,
And have its will upon the extreme seas.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
1329:Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you? -- when learn to feel a home elsewhere? -- Oh happy house! could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more! -- And you, ye well-known trees! -- but you will continue the same. -- No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer! -- No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade! -- But who will remain to enjoy you? ~ Jane Austen,
1330:Science fiction is held in low regard as a branch of literature, and perhaps it deserves this critical contempt. But if we view it as a kind of sociology of the future, rather than as literature, science fiction has immense value as a mind-stretching force for the creation of the habit of anticipation. Our children should be studying Arthur C. Clarke, William Tenn, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and Robert Sheckley, not because these writers can tell them about rocket ships and time machines but, more important, because they can lead young minds through an imaginative exploration of the jungle of political, social, psychological, and ethical issues that will confront these children as adults. ~ Alvin Toffler,
1331:When the pages are in the typewriter, I can't see his face.
In that way i am choosing you over him.
I don't need to see him.
I don't need to know if he is looking up at me.
It's not even that I trust him not to leave.
I know this won't last.
I'd rather be me than him.
The words are coming so easily.
The pages are coming easily.
At the end of my dream, Eve put the apple back on the branch. The tree went back into the ground. It became a sapling, which became a seed.
God brought together the land and the water, the sky and the water, the water and the water, evening and morning, something and nothing.
He said, Let there be light.
And there was darkness. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
1332:It is also worth noting that one can obtain a Ph.D. in any branch of science for no other purpose than to make cynical use of scientific language in an effort to rationalize the glaring inadequacies of tbe Bible. A handful of Christians appear to have done this; some have even obtained their degrees from reputable universities. No doubt, others will follow in their footsteps. While such people are technically "scientists," they are not behaving like scientists. They simply are not engaged in an honest inquiry into the nature of the universe. And their proclamations about God and the failures of Darwinism do not in the least signify that there is a legitimate scientific controversy about evolution. ~ Sam Harris,
1333:Now I saw his lifeless sate. And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table he was lying on, or the floor on which the table stood, or the wall socket beneath the window, or the cable running to the lamp beside him. For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives but also in everything that does not live, drawn in sand, stone, and water. And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,
1334:Now I saw his lifeless state. And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table he was lying on, or the floor on which the table stood, or the wall socket beneath the window, or the cable running to the lamp beside him. For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives but also in everything that does not live, drawn in sand, stone, and water. And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor. ~ Karl Ove Knausg rd,
1335:Weddings have always been a fascinating thing to me. A time when people look in each others eyes and promise each other they will never allow anyone or anything to divide them. Out of two families, they come together to form a separate branch that links back to their roots. It's a time when two families are joined together because of the hearts of two people. A time when ill will and bad feelings should be put to rest along with the past. Weddings signify a new beginning. After all, no human alive has ever been able to choose his family...God knows, I would never have chosen mine. But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, 'From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed.' (Zarek) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
1336:The kid’s ATM card was accessed yesterday at 6:18 P.M.,” Esperanza said. “He took out $180. A First Philadelphia branch on Porter Street in South Philly.” “Thanks.” Information like that was not difficult to obtain. Anybody with an account number could pretty much do it with a phone by pretending they were the account holder. Even without one, any semi-human who had ever worked in law enforcement had the contacts or the access numbers or at least the wherewithal to pay off the right person. It didn’t take much anymore, not with today’s overabundance of user-friendly technology. Technology did more than depersonalize; it ripped your life wide open, gutted you, stripped away any pretense of privacy. A ~ Harlan Coben,
1337:The three terms of Federalist rule had been full of dazzling accomplishments that Republicans, with their extreme apprehension of federal power, could never have achieved. Under the tutelage of Washington, Adams, and Hamilton, the Federalists had bequeathed to American history a sound federal government with a central bank, a funded debt, a high credit rating, a tax system, a customs service, a coast guard, a navy, and many other institutions that would guarantee the strength to preserve liberty. They activated critical constitutional doctrines that gave the American charter flexibility, forged the bonds of nationhood, and lent an energetic tone to the executive branch in foreign and domestic policy. ~ Ron Chernow,
1338:Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let’s call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let’s devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams. Elm Street. A woman wonders why she is sitting on the grass, bloodspray all around. Tenth Street. A witness leaves her shoes on the hood of a bleeding policeman’s car. A strangeness, Branch feels, that is almost holy. There is much here that is holy, an aberration in the heartland of the real. ~ Don DeLillo,
1339:You could consider the idea of the multiverse, and think of it as something like a tree—that is, the universe we live in is one of an uncountable number of branches of possible universes, created by random chance and the decisions of sentient beings. So, for instance, when I rang you up in the morning, there was a possible future universe in which you answered the phone, and another in which you did not, and by answering the phone you put us in one universe and not the other. In that instance the time traveler doesn't just move from the future to the past and back to the future: he moves down one branch of the universe, toward the root that's back at the beginning of time, and back up another branch. ~ Dexter Palmer,
1340:The Nervous System of man is divided into two great systems, viz., the Cerebro-Spinal System and the Sympathetic System. The Cerebro-Spinal System consists of all that part of the Nervous System contained within the cranial cavity and the spinal canal, viz., the brain and the spinal cord, together with the nerves which branch off from the same. This system presides over the functions of animal life known as volition, sensation, etc. The Sympathetic System includes all that part of the Nervous System located principally in the thoracic, abdominal and pelvic cavities, and which is distributed to the internal organs. It has control over the involuntary processes, such as growth, nutrition, etc. ~ William Walker Atkinson,
1341:nascent, underfunded Supreme Court. Recent biographies of the great Chief Justice tell how John Marshall used the camaraderie of boardinghouse tables and common rooms, also madeira, to dispel dissent and achieve the one-voiced Opinion of the Court, which he usually composed and delivered himself. The unanimity John Marshall strived to maintain helped the swordless Third Branch fend off attacks from the political branches.9 Although Chief Justice Marshall strictly separated his Court and family life, he did not lack affection for his wife. In a letter from Philadelphia in 1797, John Marshall told Polly of his longing. “I like [the big city] well enough for a day or two,” he wrote Polly, “but I then ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
1342:Shiloh, but it sorely disappointed the Century editors. Written in Grant’s pithy style, it was arid and compact and read like a bloodless report. Johnson hurried over to Long Branch for a pep talk with his new writer. A gifted editor, he drew Grant into personal reminiscences about Shiloh and made him see the difference between a dry recitation and one enlivened by personal impressions. This came as a revelation to Grant, who was an apt pupil and promised to start anew. As he did so, he felt a spurt of liberating energy. “Why, I am positively enjoying the work,” he told Johnson. “I am keeping at it every night and day, and Sundays.”8 Under Johnson’s tutelage, Grant discovered new dimensions to his writing, ~ Ron Chernow,
1343:And then there was the expansive garden that ran the length of the rear of the house- lush with color and fragrances that seemed to burst from every branch and bloom. Whoever had designed it possessed a keen eye for beauty, each plant chosen with obvious care and an affinity for nature.
She'd even acquired a new cat from its depths, a stray orange tom she found wandering among the hydrangea bushes one morning. An offered dish of milk and he'd been her bosom beau ever since. She'd decided to call him Ranunculus because Buttercup was far too feminine a name for such a large and impressive male. She gazed at him now where he slept in the sunshine, basking like a small potentate in the heat of the day. ~ Tracy Anne Warren,
1344:Mathematical theories have sometimes been used to predict phenomena that were not confirmed until years later. For example, Maxwell's equations, named after physicist James Clerk Maxwell, predicted radio waves. Einstein's field equations suggested that gravity would bend light and that the universe is expanding. Physicist Paul Dirac once noted that the abstract mathematics we study now gives us a glimpse of physics in the future. In fact, his equations predicted the existence of antimatter, which was subsequently discovered. Similarly, mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky said that "there is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not someday be applied to the phenomena of the real world. ~ Clifford A Pickover,
1345:Meaning"

- When I die, I will see the lining of the world.
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
The true meaning, ready to be decoded.
What never added up will add up,
What was incomprehensible will be comprehended.

- And if there is no lining to the world?
If a thrush on a branch is not a sign,
But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day
Make no sense following each other?
And on this earth there is nothing except this earth?

- Even if that is so, there will remain
A word wakened by lips that perish,
A tireless messenger who runs and runs
Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies,
And calls out, protests, screams. ~ Czes aw Mi osz,
1346:Love Encompasses All
Love encompasses all
The eternal end of our closeness
Metaphor of our being,
Your beauty beacons,
Inevitable inflictions,
How sweetly befall,
Love encompasses all.
With the break of dawn,
Dewdrops shine on rose petals,
A moth hovers around around the tree branch,
The flower, moth, turbulent oceans
Serenity, rise and fall,
Love encompasses all.
For the dreams we shared?
For the plans we carved?
But the waves do not stop,
On the threshold of time
In the dance of dust,
Colours fade away fast,
Impressions do not last
Clouds vanish on horizon,
Shrinking distances enthrall,
Love encompasses all.
~ Amjad Islam Amjad,
1347:Man as an organism is to the world outside like a whirlpool is to a river: man and world are a single natural process, but we are behaving as if we were invaders and plunderers in a foreign territory. For when the individual is defined and felt as the separate personality or ego, he remains unaware that his actual body is a dancing pattern of energy that simply does not happen by itself. It happens only in concert with myriads of other patterns—called animals, plants, insects, bacteria, minerals, liquids, and gases. The definition of a person and the normal feeling of “I” do not effectively include these relationships. You say, “I came into this world.” You didn’t; you came out of it, as a branch from a tree. ~ Alan W Watts,
1348:Sonnets 02: Into The Golden Vessel Of Great Song
Into the golden vessel of great song
Let us pour all our passion; breast to breast
Let other lovers lie, in love and rest;
Not we,—articulate, so, but with the tongue
Of all the world: the churning blood, the long
Shuddering quiet, the desperate hot palms pressed
Sharply together upon the escaping guest,
The common soul, unguarded, and grown strong.
Longing alone is singer to the lute;
Let still on nettles in the open sigh
The minstrel, that in slumber is as mute
As any man, and love be far and high,
That else forsakes the topmost branch, a fruit
Found on the ground by every passer-by.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay,
1349:Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of their laborious explanations stick in the memory. The mind drops them as a branch drops its overripe fruit. ... Again and again I ask impatiently, "Why concern myself with these explanations and hypotheses?" They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men. ~ Helen Keller,
1350:Meaning
When I die, I will see the lining of the world.
The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.
The true meaning, ready to be decoded.
What never added up will add Up,
What was incomprehensible will be comprehended.
- And if there is no lining to the world?
If a thrush on a branch is not a sign,
But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day
Make no sense following each other?
And on this earth there is nothing except this earth?
- Even if that is so, there will remain
A word wakened by lips that perish,
A tireless messenger who runs and runs
Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies,
And calls out, protests, screams.
~ Czeslaw Milosz,
1351:But even if we assume that all who are directly forced out of employment by machinery, as well as all of the rising generation who were waiting for a chance of employment in the same branch of industry, do actually find some new employment—are we to believe that this new employment will pay as high wages as did the one they have lost? If it did, it would be in contradiction to all the laws of political economy. We have seen how modern industry always tends to the substitution of the simpler and more subordinate employments for the higher and more complex ones. How, then, could a mass of workers thrown out of one branch of industry by machinery find refuge in another branch, unless they were to be paid more poorly? ~ Karl Marx,
1352:Cassandra continued her obstacle course along the wall, hoping to find a gate or a door, anything permitting entry. The sun was rising in the sky and the birds had relaxed their singing. The air was heavy with the sweet, swooning perfume of a climbing rose. Although it was autumn, Cassandra was becoming hot. To think she had once imagined England a cold country to which the sun was a stranger. She stopped to wipe sweat from her brow and bumped her head on something low-hanging.
The gnarled bough of a tree reached armlike over the wall. An apple tree, Cassandra realized, when she saw that the branch bore fruit- shiny, golden apples. They were so ripe, so deliciously fragrant, that she couldn't resist picking one. ~ Kate Morton,
1353:Kuntaw died on the most beautiful day in a thousand years. The October air was sweet and every faint breath a pleasure. Wind stirred and he said, “Our wind reaching me here.” A small cloud formed in the west. “Our small cloud coming to me.” The hours passed and the small cloud formed a dark wall and approached. A drop fell, another, many, and Kuntaw said, “Our rain wetting my face.” His people came near him, drawing him into their eyes, and he said, “Now . . . what . . .” The sun came out, the brilliant world sparkled, susurration, liquid flow, stems of striped grass what was it what was it the limber swish of a released branch. What, now what. Kuntaw opened his mouth, said nothing, and let the sunlight enter him. ~ Annie Proulx,
1354:Sonnet Lxxxii: Hoarded Joy
I said: “Nay, pluck not,—let the first fruit be:
Even as thou sayest, it is sweet and red,
But let it ripen still. The tree's bent head
Sees in the stream its own fecundity
And bides the day of fulness. Shall not we
At the sun's hour that day possess the shade,
And claim our fruit before its ripeness fade,
And eat it from the branch and praise the tree?”
I say: “Alas! our fruit hath wooed the sun
Too long,—'tis fallen and floats adown the stream.
Lo, the last clusters! Pluck them every one,
And let us sup with summer; ere the gleam
Of autumn set the year's pent sorrow free,
And the woods wail like echoes from the sea.”
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
1355:All these years, and you never told me?”
“It’s just that…one day went by, then another. After a while, it just seemed easier to let you hate me, you know?”
“God, Ryder. All this time…” I shake my head, my cheeks burning now. “Do you have any idea how upset I was? How humiliated?”
“I’m sorry,” he says, sounding miserable. “I was a jerk and a coward and…I don’t know what else. Just…please say that you’ll forgive me.”
I lie there quietly, trying to make sense of it all--to understand the workings of a thirteen-year-old boy’s mind. But my thoughts keep going back to something he’d said earlier. “You really thought I was the prettiest girl in Magnolia Branch?”
“I still do, Jemma,” he says, his voice quiet. ~ Kristi Cook,
1356:To drive children into labour is to slaughter artists, to scour deathly all wonder, the flickering dart of imagination eager as finches flitting from branch to branch – all crushed to serve grown-up needs and heartless expectations. The adult who demands such a thing is dead inside, devoid of nostalgia’s bright dancing colours, so smooth, so delicious, so replete with longing both sweet and bitter – dead inside, yes, and dead outside, too. Corpses in motion, cold with the resentment the undead bear towards all things still alive, all things still warm, still breathing. Pity these ones? Nay, never, never so long as they drive on hordes of children into grisly labour, then sup languid of air upon the myriad rewards. ~ Steven Erikson,
1357:Finally, the cognomen, a personal surname, was particular to its holder or his branch of the family. It often had a jokey or down-to-earth ring: so, for example, “Cicero” is Latin for “chickpea” and it was supposed that some ancestor had had a wart of that shape on the end of his nose. When Marcus was about to launch his career as an advocate and politician, friends advised him to change his name to something less ridiculous. “No,” he replied firmly, “I am going to make my cognomen more famous than those of men like Scaurus and Catulus.” These were two leading Romans of the day, and the point of the remark was that “Catulus” was the Latin for “whelp” or “puppy,” and “Scaurus” meant “with large or projecting ankles. ~ Anthony Everitt,
1358:The cash arrived without warning. None of the officials at the bank branch in Erbil knew the money was coming, and they had no idea at first what to do with it. The Americans unloaded it into piles, after which it was stored in the bank building until bank officials could figure out what to do next. Later, after senior American officials realized that the cash had been left with bank officials who were entirely unprepared to receive it, they called back to the bank branch in Erbil to check on it. The American officials were told that the cash had been taken care of and that everything was fine, according to staffers with Bowen’s IG office. The CPA never saw the money again, never knew where it went or how it was spent. ~ James Risen,
1359:The Newton Twins were the first to try to force the machine to be wrong. Both their tickets said Old Age, so they committed suicide. Ten times they tried, and ten times they failed. Gun jammed. Car engine died. Gas ran out. Tree branch snapped—and by now, the media was all over it. They injected HIV, and it just went away. Concrete slippers in the lake, underwater for half an hour—but the medics brought them back to life, pictures of health. One of the twins, Julie, jumped off the railway bridge, but her sister was scared of heights, so abstained. Nonetheless, she was caught by the tarp on a slow-moving train, and trudged home three days later. I try to inject some perspective, but it’s hard when religion died overnight. ~ Anonymous,
1360:Because the observer’s only freedom is the choice of which question to pose (Shall I look up at the sky?), it is here that the mind of the observer has a chance to affect the dynamics of the brain. An examination of the mathematics, Stapp argued, shows that “the conscious intentions of a human being [reflected in the choices he makes about what question to put to nature] can influence the activities of his brain…. Each conscious event picks out from the multitude of… possibilities that comprise the quantum brain the subensem-ble that is compatible with the conscious experience.” The physical event reduces the state of the brain to that branch of it that is compatible with the particular experience or observation. ~ Jeffrey M Schwartz,
1361:Information
This tree has two million and seventy-five thousand leaves.
Perhaps I missed a leaf or two but I do feel triumphant
at having persisted in counting by hand branch by branch
and marked down on paper with pencil each total.
Adding them up was a pleasure I could understand;
I did something on my own that was not dependent on others,
and to count leaves is not less meaningful than to count the stars,
as astronomers are always doing.
They want the facts to be sure they have them all.
It would help them to know whether the world is finite.
I discovered one tree that is finite.
I must try counting the hairs on my head, and you too.
We could swap information.
~ David Ignatow,
1362:Because the observer's only freedom is the choice of which question to pose (Shall I look up at the sky?), it is here that the mind of the observer has a chance to affect the dynamics of the brain. An examination of the mathematics, Stapp argued, shows that "the conscious intentions of a human being [reflected in the choices he makes about what question to put to nature] can influence the activities of his brain....Each conscious event picks out from the multitude of...possibilities that comprise the quantum brain the subensemble that is compatible with the conscious experience." The physical event reduces the state of the brain to that branch of it that is compatible with the particular experience or observation. ~ Jeffrey M Schwartz,
1363:Love

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.
A weak covenant is a rotten root, without grace or fruit.
Though the boughs and leaves of the date palm are green,
greenness brings no benefit if the root is corrupt.
If a branch is without green leaves, yet has a good root,
a hundred leaves will put forth their hands in the end. ~ Rumi,
1364:We all came up out of the ground and took our forms. So much harder for us to have a form because we have one on the outside and too many inside. Depth, surface, power, fragility, direction, indirection, arrogance, servility, rocks, roots, grass, blossoms, dirt. We are a tangle of roots, a young branch, a flower, a moldy spore. You want to say, This is me; this is who I am. But you don’t even know what it is, or what it’s for. Time parts its shabby curtain: There is my father, listening to his music hard enough to break his own heart. Trying to borrow shapes for his emotions so that he may hold them out to the world and the world might say, Yes, we see. We feel. We understand. I touch the hazelnut bush gently as I pass. ~ Mary Gaitskill,
1365:As a Christian, I'm not a physical unit in a religious organization. I'm a living part of a miraculous spiritual unity in Christ-a member of one body (1 Cor. 12:12-14), a stone in one temple (Eph. 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:4-7), a branch in one vine (John 15:1-9), to name but a few of the New Testament images of the church. All Christians are different, and yet we are all united in Christ. Regardless of race, color, gender, political or economic status, believers are "all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:26-29). Unity without diversity is uniformity, and diversity without unity is anarchy; but unity and diversity combined by the Holy Spirit in the church will produce a dynamic life of sacrifice and service that can change the world. ~ Warren W Wiersbe,
1366:Tito snored away on the other bed. Out there, all around them to the last fringes of occupancy, were Toobfreex at play in the video universe, the tropic isle, the Long Branch Saloon, the Starship Enterprise, Hawaiian crime fantasies, cute kids in make-believe living rooms with invisible audiences to laugh at everything they did, baseball highlights, Vietnam footage, helicopter gunships and firefights, and midnight jokes, and talking celebrities, and a slave girl in a bottle, and Arnold the pig, and here was Doc, on the natch, caught in a low-level bummer he couldn’t find a way out of, about how the Psychedelic Sixties, this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness… ~ Thomas Pynchon,
1367:The Balance Wheel
Where I waved at the sky
And waited your love through a February sleep,
I saw birds swinging in, watched them multiply
Into a tree, weaving on a branch, cradling a keep
In the arms of April sprung from the south to occupy
This slow lap of land, like cogs of some balance wheel.
I saw them build the air, with that motion birds feel.
Where I wave at the sky
And understand love, knowing our August heat,
I see birds pulling past the dim frosted thigh
Of Autumn, unlatched from the nest, and wing-beat
For the south, making their high dots across the sky,
Like beauty spots marking a still perfect cheek.
I see them bend the air, slipping away, for what birds seek.
~ Anne Sexton,
1368:For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic. ~ Karl Marx,
1369:There was a mountain climber who slipped on a ledge and was about to plummet thousands of feet to his death, but as he started to fall, he grabbed a branch of a tiny, scraggly tree that was growing out of a crack in the face of the cliff. As he clung to the branch, the roots of the scraggly tree began to pull loose, and the climber was facing certain death. At that moment, he cried out to the heavens, “Is there anyone up there who can help me?” In reply, he heard a rich, baritone voice from the sky, saying: “Yes. I am here and I will help you. Let go of the branch and trust Me.” The man looked up to heaven and then looked back down into the abyss. Finally, he raised his voice again and said, “Is there anyone else up there who can help me? ~ R C Sproul,
1370:This never would have happened in India. In India they understood that life unfolded the way it unfolded, whether you liked it or not: the cow in the road, the swerve that saves or kills you. One life ended, a new one began, maybe it was better than the last one, maybe it wasn't. The Indians (and the Thais, and the Sri Lankans) accepted this the way they accepted monsoons or the heat, with a resignation that was like simple good sense. Damned Americans. Americans, unschooled in the burning dung heaps and the sudden swerves, Americans couldn't help but cling tightly to the life they were living like clutching a spindly branch that was sure to break … and when things didn't go quite as expected, Americans lost their shit. Himself included. ~ Sharon Guskin,
1371:Climbing
High up in the apple tree climbing I go,
With the sky above me, the earth below.
Each branch is the step of a wonderful stair
Which leads to the town I see shining up there.
Climbing, climbing, higher and higher,
The branches blow and I see a spire,
The gleam of a turret, the glint of a dome,
All sparkling and bright, like white sea foam.
On and on, from bough to bough,
The leaves are thick, but I push my way through;
Before, I have always had to stop,
But to-day I am sure I shall reach the top.
Today to the end of the marvelous stair,
Where those glittering pinacles flash in the air!
Climbing, climbing, higher I go,
With the sky close above me, the earth far below.
~ Amy Lowell,
1372:floating there, twisting around a tree branch, and she shivered. There had been no trips to the park since the body had washed up there. She couldn’t bring herself to do it. Both of the victims were from Jenkins Hollow. Both had red hair. Both had these rune symbols, which basically meant they were thought to be evil, marked women. How many more could there be? If it was a serial killer, how many others could fit this pattern? Just then the phone rang, and she nearly jumped off her chair. “Hello. Cumberland Creek Dance.” “Vera Matthews please.” “Speaking.” “This is Jennifer Blake at the elementary school. There’s been an emergency with Annie Chamovitz, and she has you listed as an emergency contact for her children. Can you pick her boys ~ Mollie Cox Bryan,
1373:With its federal government that can supersede state and local law, its dependence on rule by the majority rather than consensus, its bicameral legislature (members of one branch being elected at fixed intervals), and its denial of suffrage to women, slaves, and the unpropertied, the Constitution as originally enacted was sharply different from the Great Law. In addition, the Constitution’s emphasis on protecting private property runs contrary to Haudenosaunee traditions of communal ownership. But in a larger sense, it seems to me, the claim is correct. The Framers of the Constitution, like most North American colonists, lived at a time when Indians were large presences in their lives—ones that naturally influenced their ideas and actions. ~ Charles C Mann,
1374:Ouma Nella’s quotes p 144 -146
“Man, if you don’t know where you going, any road will bring you there.”

“It don’t matter how far a river run. It never forget where it come from. That is all that is important.”

“No matter if it’s wet or dry,” she grunt. “As long as you keep a green branch in your heart, there will always be a bird that come to sing in it.”

“It’s no use crying in the rain, my child, because no one will see your tears.
“Don't think you can climb two trees at the same time just because you got two legs.”

“Ouma Nella, where am I not?”
“But you’re right here with me, Philida. So there’s many places where you’re not.”
“Tell me where those places are. I got to know. So I can go and look for myself. ~ Andr Brink,
1375:Different types of cells (brain cells, muscle cells, etc.) differ from each other in the structure and chemistry of their cell-bodies. The differences are due to the interaction between gene-complex cell-body and the cell's environment. In each growing and differentiating tissue a different portion of the total gene-complex is active-only that branch of the gene-hierarchy which is concerned with the functions assigned to the tissue in question; the remainder of teh genes is 'switched off'. And if we inquire into the nature of the agency which switches genes on and off, we find once more the familiar devices of triggers and feedbacks. The 'triggers' are the chemical 'inducers', 'organisers', 'operators' and 'repressors', etc. already mentioned. ~ Arthur Koestler,
1376:In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust. Branch out. Not only do our beliefs define us, but so does the community of like-minded people who share those beliefs. Christian traditions, denominations, and congregations provide a group identity. We are social animals, so we should not judge our spiritual groups, or those of others, as necessarily a problem. Only when our communities become the defining element of our spiritual lives, packs that protect those boundaries at all costs, do problems begin. That leads to isolation, “us versus them” thinking, and the illusion that “we” are basically right about the Bible and God and “they” aren’t—the kind of wall-building that Jesus and Paul criticized. So much can be learned from ~ Peter Enns,
1377:We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the same schools,
Rode the same bus,
Had the same friends,
And even shared spaghetti
With each other's families.
And though our roots belong to
The same tree,
Our branches have grown
In different directions.
Our tree,
Now resembles a thousand
Other trees
In a sea of a trillion
Other trees
With parallel destinies
And similar dreams.
You cannot envy the branch
That grows bigger
From the same seed,
And you cannot
Blame it on the sun's direction.
But you still compare us,
As if we're still those two
Kids at the park
Slurping down slushies and
Eating ice cream.



Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010) ~ Suzy Kassem,
1378:All life-forms are a kind of living information, transforms, as Bate-son put it, of messages. Not, by any means, actors against a static background. But rather, information added to an already extant and very complex information system. There is, in consequence, a pattern that connects each part to each other and to the whole. A pattern that runs through everything that Gaia has done. As Frank Herbert noted . . . There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace—those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the patterns of its leaves.13 ~ Stephen Harrod Buhner,
1379:Many were the tears shed by them in their last adieus to a place so much beloved. "Dear, dear Norland!" said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; "when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!—Oh! happy house, could you know what I suffer in now viewing you from this spot, from whence perhaps I may view you no more!—And you, ye well-known trees!—but you will continue the same.—No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer!—No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade!—But who will remain to enjoy you? ~ Jane Austen,
1380:I don't remember the house so well as the barn, and remember the barn less than the creek, and the creek less than an apple tree my brother and sister would climb to get into or out of their bedrooms. I couldn't climb up, because I couldn't reach the first branch from the bottom, so about the time I turned four, I went upstairs and climbed down the tree instead. I broke my collarbone and you could have killed yourself, my mother said, which would have been true if I'd fallen from the upstairs. But I made it almost the whole way down, which no one seemed to notice. What have you learned? my father asked, and I didn't have the words then, but, in retrospect, the lesson seemed to be that what you accomplish will never matter so much as where you fail. ~ Karen Joy Fowler,
1381:The devastation of the lumberjacks appeared more atrocious at this time of year when everything is getting ready to come back to life. In the warm air some twigs were already growing, some buds were opening, and each branch that had been chopped was crying with sap. I advanced slowly, not feeling so sad because I was exalted by the pain of the countryside, feeling a bit gray perhaps by the strong vegetal odor that the dying trees and the earth exhaled. I was barely sensitive to the contrast of these dead trees with the renewal of springtime. In this state the park was more open to receive light which bathed and gilded both what was dead and what was alive. However, from far away the tragic song of the axes filled the air with a funeral solemnity, secretly ~ Andr Gide,
1382:Then his lungs seemed to open up again, each breath going deeper than the one before. His sneakers (not blinding white Adidas, just ratty old Pumas) seemed to shed the lead coating they had gained. His previous lightness of body came rushing back. It was what Milly had called the following wind, and what pros like McComb no doubt called the runner's high. Scott preferred that. He remembered that day in his yard, flexing his knees, leaping, and catching the branch of the tree. He remembered running up and down the bandstand steps. He remembered dancing across the kitchen floor as Stevie Wonder sang "Superstition." This was the same. Not a wind, not even a high, exactly, but an elevation. A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still. ~ Stephen King,
1383:Since Modi’s ascension to office, what has happened in the ED, which had registered a preliminary case against Adani in Ahmedabad and was handed details of DRI findings, is illustrative. The officer heading the Ahmedabad branch of the directorate was raided by the CBI, which accused him of possessing disproportionate assets. It failed to prove anything at all, despite months of investigation. The two senior-most officers in the Mumbai regional office, who oversaw the investigations in Ahmedabad, were forced out of the agency. The tenure of Rajan S. Katoch, who was heading the directorate when the case was opened, also ended abruptly. Apart from the Adani case, the Ahmedabad ED investigators were also pursuing some of the biggest money launderers of Gujarat. ~ Josy Joseph,
1384:Viable
Motion's the dead giveaway,
eye catcher, the revealing risk:
the caterpillar sulls on the hot macadam
but then, risking, ripples to the bush:
the cricket, startled, leaps the
quickest arc: the earthwrom, casting,
nudges a grassblade, and the sharp robin
strikes: sound's the other
announcement: the redbird lands in
an elm branch and tests the air with
cheeps for an answering, reassuring
cheep, for a motion already cleared:
survival organizes these means down to
tension, to enwrapped, twisting suasions:
every act or non-act enceinte with risk or
prize: why must the revelations be
sound and motion, the point, too, moving and
saying through the scary opposites to death.
~ Archie Randolph Ammons,
1385:Spectacular men! you see with the spirit's eyes, piercing the veil. In a luminous shade you proclaim a sharp living brightness that buds from a branch that blossomed alone when the radical light took root. Holy ones of old! you foretold deliverance for the souls of exiles slumped in the dead lands. Like wheels you spun round in wonder as you spoke of the mysterious mountain at the brink of heaven that stills many waters, sailing over the waves. And a shining lamp burned in the midst of you! Pointing, he runs to the mountain. [1826.jpg] -- from Symphonia: A Critical Edition of the Symphonia armonie celstium revelationum, by Hildegard of Bingen / Translated by Barbara Newman

~ Saint Hildegard von Bingen, O spectabiles viri - Antiphon for Patriarchs and Prophets
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1386:The Elm Log
By Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We were sawing firewood when we picked up an elm log and gave a cry of amazement. It was a full year since we had chopped down the trunk, dragged it along behind a tractor and sawn it up into logs, which we had then thrown on to barges and wagons, rolled into stacks and piled up on the ground - and yet this elm log had still not given up! A fresh green shoot had sprouted from it with a promise of a thick, leafy branch, or even a whole new elm tree.

We placed the log on the sawing-horse, as though on an executioner's block, but we could not bring ourselves to bite into it with our saw. How could we? That log cherished life as dearly as we did; indeed, its urge to live was even stronger than ours. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
1387:It is a natural human impulse to think of evolution as a long chain of improvements, of a never-ending advance towards largeness and complexity – in a word, towards us. We flatter ourselves. Most of the real diversity in evolution has been small-scale. We large things are just flukes – an interesting side branch. Of the twenty-three main divisions of life, only three – plants, animals and fungi – are large enough to be seen by the human eye33, and even they contain species that are microscopic. Indeed, according to Woese, if you totalled up all the biomass of the planet – every living thing, plants included – microbes would account for at least 80 per cent of all there is34, perhaps more. The world belongs to the very small – and it has done for a very long time. ~ Bill Bryson,
1388:And she knew for the first time that someone can wire your skin in a single evening, and that love arrives not by accumulating to a moment, like a drop of water focused on the tip of a branch - it is not the moment of bringing your whole life to another - but rather, it is everything you leave behind. At that moment.
Even that night, the night he touched one inch of her in the dark, how simply Avery seemed to accept the facts - that they were on the edge of lifelong happiness and, therefore, inescapable sorrow. It was as if, long ago, a part of him had broken off inside, and now finally, he recognised the dangerous fragment that had been floating in his system, causing him intermittent pain over the years. As if he could now say of that ache: "Ah. It was you. ~ Anne Michaels,
1389:Other Christian communities reported horrendous losses from similar events. Lord Bryce alleged that the Turkish government was pursuing a “plan for exterminating Christianity, root and branch,” which equally targeted “the minor communities, such as the Nestorian and Assyro-Chaldean churches.” Claiming to have lost two-thirds of their own people during their own wartime genocide, the Assyrians recall 1915 as sayfo, “the Year of the Sword.” In the Christian-majority region of Lebanon, the Turkish military deliberately induced a famine that left a weakened population unable to withstand the ensuing epidemics: a hundred thousand Maronite Christians died. All told, including Armenians, Maronites, and Assyrians, perhaps 1.5 million Christians perished in the region.35 ~ Philip Jenkins,
1390:In the case of food, if the argument is valid that we need some kind of genetic modification to help feed the world’s growing population, then I believe that we cannot simply dismiss this branch of genetic technology. However, if, as suggested by its critics, this argument is merely a front for motives that are primarily commercial—such as producing food that will simply have a longer lasting shelf life, that can be more easily exported from one side of the world to the other, that is more attractive in appearance and more convenient in consumption, or creating grains and cereals engineered not to produce their own seeds so that farmers are forced to depend entirely upon the biotech companies for seeds—then clearly such practices must be seriously questioned. Many ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
1391:Except that wasn't all. The real fun began when a kite was cut. That was where the kite runners came in, those kids who chased the windblown kite drifting through the neighborhoods until it came spiraling down in a field, dropping in someone's yard, on a tree or a rooftop. The chase got pretty fierce; hordes of kite runners swarmed the streets, shoved past each other like those people from Spain I'd read about once, the ones who ran from the bulls. One year a neighborhood kid climbed a pine tree for a kite. A branch snapped under his weight and he fell thirty feet. Broke his back and never walked again. But he fell with the kite still in his hands. And when a kite runner has his hands on a kite, no one could take it from him. That wasn't a rule. That was a custom. ~ Khaled Hosseini,
1392:He was suddenly thrilled to see his private, personal star arise in the east. This was a particular star his nanny had chosen for him as a child. As a child, he would sometimes talk to this star, but only when he was his most serious, real self, and not being any sort of a show-off or clown. As he grew up, the practice had somehow worn off.
He looked up at his old friend as if to say, “You see my predicament.”
The star seemed to respond, “I see.”
Abel next put the question: “What shall I do?”
The star seemed to answer, “You will do what you will do.” For some reason this reply strengthened Abel’s belief in himself. Sleep gently enfolded him. The constellations proceeded across the hushed heavens as if tiptoeing past the dreaming mouse on his high branch. ~ William Steig,
1393:Margarita
Sundering the bushes like a snare,
More violet than Margarita's tight-pressed lips,
More passionate than Margarita's white-eyed stare,
The nightingale glowed, royally throbbed and trilled.
Like the scent of grass ascending,
Like the crazed rainfall's mercury, the foliage among,
He stupefied the bark, approached the mouth, panting,
And, halting there, upon a braid he hung.
When Margarita to the light was drawn,
Stroking her eyes with an astonished hand,
It seemed, beneath the helm of branch and rain,
A weary Amazon was fallen to the ground.
Her head in her hand in his hand lay,
Her other arm was bent back up to where,
Dangling, there hung her helmet of shade,
Sundering the branches like a snare.
~ Boris Pasternak,
1394:The Goths were now in possession of the Ukraine, a country of considerable extent and uncommon fertility, intersected with navigable rivers, which, from either side, discharge themselves into the Borysthenes; and interspersed with large and leafy forests of oaks. The plenty of game and fish, the innumerable bee-hives deposited in the hollow of old trees, and in the cavities of rocks, and forming, even in that rude age, a valuable branch of commerce, the size of the cattle, the temperature of the air, the aptness of the soil for every species of grain, and the luxuriancy of the vegetation, all displayed the liberality of Nature, and tempted the industry of man. But the Goths withstood all these temptations, and still adhered to a life of idleness, of poverty, and of rapine. ~ Edward Gibbon,
1395:Of course it’s bound to cause a great deal of very disagreeable talk. Especially ‘round the church! Are you gentlemen Episcopalian? PORTER: No, ma’am. Catholic, Miss Collins. MISS COLLINS: Oh. Well, I suppose you know in England we’re known as the English Catholic church. We have direct Apostolic succession through St. Paul who christened the Early Angles—which is what the original English people were called—and established the English branch of the Catholic church over there. So when you hear ignorant people claim that our church was founded by—by Henry the Eighth—that horrible, lecherous old man who had so many wives—as many as Blue-beard they say! —you can see how ridiculous it is and how thoroughly obnox-ious to anybody who really knows and understands Church History! ~ Tennessee Williams,
1396:FORKED BRANCHES


We grew up on the same street,
You and me.
We went to the same schools,
Rode the same bus,
Had the same friends,
And even shared spaghetti
With each other's families.


And though our roots belong to
The same tree,
Our branches have grown
In different directions.
Our tree,
Now resembles a thousand
Other trees
In a sea of a trillion
Other trees
With parallel destinies
And similar dreams.
You cannot envy the branch
That grows bigger
From the same seed,
And you cannot
Blame it on the sun's direction.
But you still compare us,
As if we're still those two
Kids at the park
Slurping down slushies and
Eating ice cream.



Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010) ~ Suzy Kassem,
1397:What about the role of the CIA in a democratic society? Is that an oxymoron? You could imagine a democratic society with an organization that carries out intelligence-gathering functions. But that’s a very minor part of what the CIA does. Its main purpose is to carry out secret and usually illegal activities for the executive branch, which wants to keep these activities secret because it knows that the public won’t accept them. So even inside the US, it’s highly undemocratic. The activities that it carries out are quite commonly efforts to undermine democracy, as in Chile through the 1960s into the early 1970s. That’s far from the only example. By the way, although most people focus on Nixon’s and Kissinger’s involvement with the CIA, Kennedy and Johnson carried out similar policies. ~ Noam Chomsky,
1398:The private kindness of one individual towards another; a petty, thoughtless kindness; an unwitnessed kindness. Something we could call senseless kindness. A kindness outside any system of social or religious good.

But if we think about it, we realize that this private, senseless, incidental kindness is in fact eternal. It is extended to everything living, even to a mouse, even to a bent branch that a man straightens as he walks by.

Even at the most terrible times, through all the mad acts carried out in the name of Universal Good and the glory of States, times when people were tossed about like branches in wind, filling ditches and gullies like stones in an avalanche - even then this senseless, pathetic kindness remained scattered throughout life like atoms of radium. ~ Vasily Grossman,
1399:The broken branch hissed loudly, and then that
wind was converted into these words: "Briefly will
you be answered.
When the fierce soul departs from the body from
which it has uprooted itself, Minos sends it to the
seventh mouth.
It falls into the wood, and no place is assigned to
it, but where chance hurls it, there it sprouts like a
grain of spelt.
It grows into a shoot, then a woody plant; the
Harpies, feeding on its leaves, give it pain and a
window for the pain.
Like the others, we will come for our remains, but
not so that any may put them on again, for it is not
just to have what one has taken from oneself.
Here we will drag them, and through the sad
wood our corpses will hang, each on the thornbrush
of the soul that harmed it. ~ Dante Alighieri,
1400:We saw an example of this pattern-based analysis on the “theme sheet,” where he made the analogy between a branching tree and the arteries in a human, one that he applied also to rivers and their tributaries. “All the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk below them,” he wrote elsewhere. “All the branches of a river at every stage of its course, if they are of equal rapidity, are equal to the body of the main stream.”15 This conclusion is still known as “da Vinci’s rule,” and it has proven true in situations where the branches are not very large: the sum of the cross-sectional area of all branches above a branching point is equal to the cross-sectional area of the trunk or the branch immediately below the branching point. ~ Walter Isaacson,
1401:Picture a bird perched on a thin branch," she [Miss Saeki] says. 'The branch sways in the wind, and each time this happens the bird's field of vision shifts. You know what I mean?'
I nod.
'When that happens, how do you think the bird adjusts?'
I shake my head. 'I don't know.'
'It bobs its head up and down, making up for the sway of the branch. Take a good look at birds the next time it's windy. I spend a lot of time looking out that window. Don't you think that kind of life would be tiresome? Always shifting your head every time the branch you're on sways?'
'I do.'
'Birds are used to it. It comes naturally to them. They don't have to think about it, they just do it. So it's not as tiring as we imagine. But I'm a human being, not a bird, so sometimes it does get tiring. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1402:What simpletons we are! Whatever our natural age, how childish we are in spiritual things! What great simpletons we are when we first believe in Christ! We think that our being pardoned involves a great many things which we afterwards find have nothing whatever to do with our pardon. For instance, we think we shall never sin again. We fancy that the battle is all fought; that we have got into a fair field, with no more war to wage;  that in fact we have got the victory, and have only just to stand up and wave the palm branch; that all is over, that God has only got to call us up  to himself and we shall enter into heaven without having to fight any enemies upon earth. Now, all these are obvious mistakes. Though the text has a great meaning, it does not mean anything of this kind. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
1403:above my head. I shrank away, but the hornbill made no attempt to attack me. He was relaxing in his home, which was a great hole in the tree trunk. Only the bird’s head and great beak were showing. He looked at me in rather a bored way, drowsily opening and shutting his eyes. ‘So many creatures live here,’ I said to myself. ‘I hope none of them is dangerous!’ At that moment the hornbill lunged at a passing cricket. Bill and tree trunk met with a loud and resonant ‘Tonk!’ I was so startled that I nearly fell out of the tree. But it was a difficult tree to fall out of! It was full of places where one could sit or even lie down. So I moved away from the hornbill, crawled along a branch which had sent out supports, and so moved quite a distance from the main body of the tree. I left its cold, dark ~ Ruskin Bond,
1404:There is probably no other science which presents such different appearances to one who cultivates and one who does not, as mathematics. To [the non-mathematician] it is ancient, venerable, and complete; a body of dry, irrefutable, unambiguous reasoning. To the mathematician, on the other hand, his science is yet in the purple of bloom of vigorous youth, everywhere stretching out after the "attainable but unattained," and full of the excitement of nascent thoughts; its logic is beset with ambiguities, and its analytic processes, like Bunyan's road, have a quagmire on one side and a deep ditch on the other, and branch off into innumerable by-paths that end in a wilderness. ~ C. H. Chapman, Review of Sophus Lie's Theorie der Transformationsgruppen (1892) Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society 2, p. 61.,
1405:Some team! The Chief was doing so many jobs alone. I’d fix on the Chief’s raw, rope-burned palms or all the gray hairs collected in his sink, and I’d suffer this terrible side pain that Kiwi said was probably an ulcer and Ossie diagnosed as lovesickness. Or rather a nausea produced by the “black fruit” of love—a terror that sprouted out of your love for someone like rotting oranges on a tree branch. Osceola knew all about this black fruit, she said, because she’d grown it for our mother, our father, Grandpa Sawtooth, even me and Kiwi. Loving a ghost was different, she explained—that kind of love was a bare branch. I pictured this branch curving inside my sister: something leafless and complete, elephantine, like a white tusk. No rot, she was saying, no fruit. You couldn’t lose a ghost to death. ~ Karen Russell,
1406:But it is impossible to picture any of our interrogators, right up to Abakumov and Beria, wanting to slip into prisoner's skin even for one hour, or feeling compelled to sit and meditate in solitary confinement.

Their branch of service does not require them to be educated people of broad culture and broad views—and they are not. Their branch of service does not require them to think logically—and they do not. Their branch of service requires only that they carry out orders exactly and be impervious to suffering—and that is what they do and what they are. We who have passed through their hands feel suffocated when we think of the legion, which is stripped bare of universal human ideals. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
1407:Moreno was the first to see me, and he let out a curse as loud as Nicole’s shriek.
He pulled a gun from his hip. An automatic pistol.
Antone knocked it from his hand and pointed his flashlight at my flank.
“It’s Maya,” he said.
He started toward me. I was inching back, the branch too thin for me to turn around.
“It could be Annie,” Penny whispered, her gaze fixed on me. “Come looking for her brother.”
Antone shook his head. “That’s Maya.” He met my gaze. “I know it is.”
He kept walking until he was directly under my branch.
“This is your first time, isn’t it?” he said, his voice soft. “You’re scared and you’re confused--”
I let out a snarl that reverberated through the quiet forest.
Antone chuckled. “Or maybe not. I should have guessed you’d hit the ground running. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1408:Theodore Beza was a younger colleague and successor of John Calvin, the founder of the Reformed branch of Protestantism during the Reformation. In his biography of Calvin, Beza recalled the three great preachers in Geneva during those years—Calvin himself, Guillaume Farel, and Pierre Viret. Farel, said Beza, was the most fiery, passionate, and forceful in his sermonic delivery. Viret was the most eloquent, and audiences hung on his skillful and beautiful words. The time flew by fastest when sitting under his preaching. Calvin was the most profound, his sermons packed full of “the weightiest of insights.” Calvin had the most substance, Viret the most eloquence, and Farel the most vehemence. Beza concluded “that a preacher who was a composite of these three men would have been absolutely perfect. ~ Timothy J Keller,
1409:Bouchalka was not a reflective person. He had his own idea of what a great prima donna should be like, and he took it for granted that Mme. Garnet corresponded to his conception. The curious thing was that he managed to impress his idea upon Cressida herself. She began to see herself as he saw her, to try to be like the notion of her that he carried everywhere in that pointed head of his. She was exalted quite beyond herself. Things that had been chilled under the grind came to life in her that winter, with the breath of Bouchalka’s adoration. Then, if ever in her life, she heard the bird sing on the branch outside her window; and she wished she were younger, lovelier, freer. She wished there were no Poppas, no Horace, no Garnets. She longed to be only the bewitching creature Bouchalka imagined her. ~ Willa Cather,
1410:No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. [...]
To drive children into labour is to slaughter artists, to scour deathly all wonder, the flickering dart of imagination eager as finches flitting from branch to branch – all crushed to serve grown-up needs and heartless expectations. The adult who demands such a thing is dead inside, devoid of nostalgia's bright dancing colours, so smooth, so delicious, so replete with longing both sweet and bitter – dead inside, yes, and dead outside, too. Corpses in motion, cold with the resentment the undead bear towards all things still alive, all things still warm, still breathing.
Pity these ones? Nay, never, never so long as they drive on hordes of children into grisly labour, then sup languid of air upon the myriad rewards. ~ Steven Erikson,
1411:We have left behind the rosy agrarian rhetoric and slaveholding reality of Jeffersonian democracy and reside in the bustling world of trade, industry, stock markets, and banks that Hamilton envisioned. (Hamilton’s staunch abolitionism formed an integral feature of this economic vision.) He has also emerged as the uncontested visionary in anticipating the shape and powers of the federal government. At a time when Jefferson and Madison celebrated legislative power as the purest expression of the popular will, Hamilton argued for a dynamic executive branch and an independent judiciary, along with a professional military, a central bank, and an advanced financial system. Today, we are indisputably the heirs to Hamilton’s America, and to repudiate his legacy is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world. ~ Ron Chernow,
1412:This young woman knew that she would die in the next few days. But when I talked to her she was cheerful in spite of this knowledge. “I am grateful that fate has hit me so hard,” she told me. “In my former life I was spoiled and did not take spiritual accomplishments seriously.” Pointing through the window of the hut, she said, “This tree here is the only friend I have in my loneliness.” Through that window she could see just one branch of a chestnut tree, and on the branch were two blossoms. “I often talk to this tree,” she said to me. I was startled and didn’t quite know how to take her words. Was she delirious? Did she have occasional hallucinations? Anxiously I asked her if the tree replied. “Yes.” What did it say to her? She answered, “It said to me, ‘I am here—I am here—I am life, eternal life. ~ Viktor E Frankl,
1413:The Weeping Garden
It’s terrible! – all drip and listening.
Whether, as ever, it’s loneliness,
splashing a branch, like lace, on the window,
or whether perhaps there’s a witness.
Choked there beneath its swollen
burden – earth’s nostrils, and audibly,
like August, far off in the distance,
midnight, ripening slow with the fields.
No sound. No one’s in hiding.
Confirming its pure desolation,
it returns to its game – slipping
from roof, to gutter, slides on.
I’ll moisten my lips, listening:
whether, as ever, I’m loneliness,
and ready maybe for weeping,
or whether perhaps there’s a witness.
But, silence. No leaves trembling.
Nothing to see: sobs, and cries
being swallowed, slippers splashing,
between them, tears and sighs.
~ Boris Pasternak,
1414:An NSA unit known as the Transgression Branch specializes in this kind of track-the-hacker work and takes things one step further. The branch watches a hacker break into another country’s computer system, then follows him inside. In a 2010 operation called Ironavenger, the Transgression Branch saw e-mails containing malware being sent to a government office in a hostile country—one that the NSA wanted to know more about. Upon further inspection, the branch discovered that the malware was coming from a US ally, whose own intelligence service was trying to break in. The Americans let their allies do the hard work and watched silently as they scooped up passwords and sensitive documents from the adversary’s system. The Americans saw everything the allies saw and got some inside knowledge about how they spied. ~ Shane Harris,
1415:Cop a squat, animals and folks. I don’t want to be here any more than the rest of you so make it fast and get out of my hair. Let’s quickly run down the bullshit pedagogy. Hear ye…Who the hell wrote this crap?...Welcome to the Omegrion Chamber. Here we gather, one rep from each branch of the two patrias. We come in peace (he paused to snort derisively) to make peace. I’m your mediator, Savitar, and if you don’t know that by now, you need to be hit in the head with a jackhammer and replaced because you’re too stupid to represent your patria. But in case you’re dense and forgot, I am the summation of all that was and what will one day be again. I make order from chaos and chaos from order, which is how I got drafted into this shit. Now let’s get on with this before I start splitting your hairs. (Savitar) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
1416:You told me trees could speak
and the only reason one heard
silence in the forest
was that they had all been born knowing different languages.

That night I went into the forest
to bury dictionaries under roots,
so many books in so many tongues
as to insure speech.

and now this very moment,
the forest seems alive
with whispers and murmurs and rumblings of sound
wind-rushed into my ears.

I do not speak any language
that crosses the silence around me
but how soothing to know
that the yearning and grasping embodied
in trees’ convoluted and startling shapes
is finally being fulfilled
in their wind shouts to each other.

Yet we who both speak English
and have since we were born
are moving ever farther apart
even as branch tips touch. ~ Carol Goodman,
1417:But life is fragile. Earth’s occasional encounters with large, wayward comets and asteroids, a formerly common event, wreaks intermittent havoc upon our ecosystem. A mere sixty-five million years ago (less than two percent of Earth’s past), a ten-trillion-ton asteroid hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula and obliterated more than seventy percent of Earth’s flora and fauna—including all the famous outsized dinosaurs. Extinction. This ecological catastrophe enabled our mammal ancestors to fill freshly vacant niches, rather than continue to serve as hors d’oeuvres for T. rex. One big-brained branch of these mammals, that which we call primates, evolved a genus and species (Homo sapiens) with sufficient intelligence to invent methods and tools of science—and to deduce the origin and evolution of the universe. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
1418:IT IS SO EASY TO GIVE IN
I have been thinking about the man who gives in.
Have you heard about him? In this story
A twenty-eight-foot pine meets a small wind
And the pine bends all the way over to the ground.
I was persuaded,” the pine says. “It was convincing.”
A mouse visits a cat, and the cat agrees
To drown all her children. “What could I do?”
The cat said. “The mouse needed that.”
It’s strange. I’ve heard that some people conspire
In their own ruin. A fool says, “You don’t
Deserve to live.” The man says, “I’ll string this rope
Over that branch, maybe you can find a box.”
The Great One with her necklace of skulls says,
I need twenty thousand corpses.” “Tell you what,”
The General says, “we have an extra battalion
Over there on the hill. We don’t need all these men. ~ Robert Bly,
1419:It is said that once upon a time St. Kevin was kneeling with his arms stretched out in the form of a cross in Glendalough. . . As Kevin knelt and prayed, a blackbird mistook his outstretched hand for some kind of roost and swooped down upon it, laid a clutch of eggs in it and proceeded to nest in it as if it were the branch of a tree. Then, overcome with pity and constrained by his faith to love all creatures great and small, Kevin stayed immobile for hours and days and nights and weeks, holding out his hand until the eggs hatched and the fledging grew wings, true to life if subversive of common sense, at the intersection of natural process and the glimpsed ideal, at one and the same time a signpost and a reminder. Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. ~ Seamus Heaney,
1420:Saint Germain-En-Laye
(1887-1895)
Through the green boughs I hardly saw thy face,
They twined so close: the sun was in mine eyes;
And now the sullen trees in sombre lace
Stand bare beneath the sinister, sad skies.
O sun and summer! Say in what far night,
The gold and green, the glory of thine head,
Of bough and branch have fallen? Oh, the white
Gaunt ghosts that flutter where thy feet have sped,
Across the terrace that is desolate,
And rang then with thy laughter, ghost of thee,
That holds its shroud up with most delicate,
Dead fingers, and behind the ghost of me,
Tripping fantastic with a mouth that jeers
At roseal flowers of youth the turbid streams
Toss in derision down the barren years
To death the host of all our golden dreams.
~ Ernest Christopher Dowson,
1421:Anyhow, I get distracted a lot," she repeated.

She felt like a dry branch, sticking out of the air. Brittle, covered in old bark. Maybe she was thirsty, but there was no water nearby. And above all the suffocating certainty that if a man were to embrace her at that moment she would feel not a soft sweetness in her nerves, but lime juice stinging them, her body like wood near fire, warped, crackling, dry. She couldn't soothe herself by saying: this is just a pause, life will come afterwards like a wave of blood, washing over me, moistening my parched wood. She couldn't fool herself because she knew she was also living and that those moments were the peak of something difficult, of a painful experience for which she should be thankful: almost as if she were feeling time outside herself, in a detached manner. ~ Clarice Lispector,
1422:But, as the conflict-studies scholar Jayne Docherty argues, the F.B.I.’s approach was doomed from the outset. In “Learning Lessons from Waco”—one of the very best of the Mount Carmel retrospectives—Docherty points out that the techniques that work on bank robbers don’t work on committed believers. There was no pragmatism hidden below a layer of posturing, lies, and grandiosity. Docherty uses Max Weber’s typology to describe the Davidians. They were “value-rational”—that is to say, their rationality was organized around values, not goals. A value-rational person would accept his fourteen-year-old daughter’s polygamous marriage, if he was convinced that it was in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. Because the F.B.I. could not take the faith of the Branch Davidians seriously, it had no meaningful way to communicate with them: ~ Anonymous,
1423:English version by Gabriel Rosenstock O Christ, protect me! How can I know your power? Your peace I need now Branch of fairest flower! O child of Bethlehem Please do not be hard! Ruler of all On Sunday be my guard. On Monday, when you judge me Save me from all harm, Though angered by your wounds Stretch out your arm. On Tuesday, lovely Son Who never shirked pain Let the world's kings stand aside Be my gain! On Thursday, God the Father, Do not deny your face, Your pain stirs love within me Seal your grace. O Trinity, stand by me Without you we are dust, On Friday, hold back your anger, Help us, you must. On Saturday, save me! My deeds leave me in danger, Do not tax me too much, I am no stranger. Son of the Father, help me, Only son most high, Pardon us, in spite of all, I cry.

~ Aonghus of the Divinity, O Christ, protect me!
,
1424:In The Bloudy Tenent, Williams points out that Constantine "did more to hurt Christ Jesus than the raging fury of the most bloody Neroes." at least under the Christian persecutor Nero, who was rumored to have had the Apostle Paul beheaded and Saint Peter crucified upside down, Christianity was a pure (if hazardous) way of life. But when Constantine himself converted to Christianity, that's when the Church was corrupted and perverted by the state. Williams explains that under Constantine, "the gardens of Christ's churches turned into the wildernesss of national religion, and the world (under Constantine's dominion) to the most unchristian Christendom." Legalizing, legitimizing the Church turned Christianity into just another branch of government enforced by "the sword of civil power," i.e., through state-sponsored violence. ~ Sarah Vowell,
1425:Hurricane
Sleep at noon. Window blind
rattle and bang. Pay no mind.
Door go jump like somebody coming:
let him come. Tin roof drumming:
drum away — she's drummed before.
Blinds blow loose: unlatch the door.
Look up sky through the manchineel:
black show through like a hole in your heel.
Look down shore at the old canoe:
rag-a-tag sea turn white, turn blue,
kick up dust in the lee of the reef,
wallop around like a loblolly leaf.
Let her wallop — who's afraid?
Gale from the north-east: just the Trade . . .
And that's when you hear it: far and high —
sea-birds screaming down the sky
high and far like screaming leaves;
tree-branch slams across the eaves;
rain like pebbles on the ground . . .
and the sea turns white and the wind goes round.
~ Archibald MacLeish,
1426:Lullaby Of The Iroquois
Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest,
Wrapped in your nest,
Strapped in your nest,
Your straight little cradle-board rocks you to rest;
Its hands are your nest;
Its bands are your nest;
It swings from the down-bending branch of the oak;
You watch the camp flame, and the curling grey smoke;
But, oh, for your pretty black eyes sleep is best,-Little brown baby of mine, go to rest.
Little brown baby-bird swinging to sleep,
Winging to sleep,
Singing to sleep,
Your wonder-black eyes that so wide open keep,
Shielding their sleep,
Unyielding to sleep,
The heron is homing, the plover is still,
The night-owl calls from his haunt on the hill,
Afar the fox barks, afar the stars peep,-Little brown baby of mine, go to sleep.
~ Emily Pauline Johnson,
1427:I used to have a crow named Albert. Bertie, when I got to know him better. I got him when he was just a little guy and had him for years. A young crow doesn't navigate well and they'll sometimes crash-land. They're called branchers at that age-that's about all they can do, lumber awkwardly from branch to branch. Sometimes they get stuck and they wail like babies until you get 'em down. Bertie must have bitten off a bit more than he could chew and he'd tumbled to the ground. I had a cat named Little John who brought him in, squawking hellishly. LJ and I had a tussle to see who was going to take possession. Fortunately for Bertie, I won the contest. He and the cat became friends later, but it was touch-and-go for a while there. LJ was pissed off because he thought this was Thanksgiving dinner and I was getting in his way (Dietz) ~ Sue Grafton,
1428:Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these energies toward the goal, and the vast, simultaneous activity, which goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the bottom and the inside and the outside. Society hardly even suspects this digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The future. ~ Victor Hugo,
1429:Out there, all around them to the last fringes of occupancy, were Toobfreex at play in the video universe, the tropic isle, the Long Branch Saloon, the Starship Enterprise, Hawaiian crime fantasies, cute kids in make-believe living rooms with invisible audiences to laugh at everything they did, baseball highlights, Vietnam footage, helicopter gunships and firefights, and midnight jokes, and talking celebrities, and a slave girl in a bottle, and Arnold the pig, and here was Doc, on the natch, caught in a low-level bummer he couldn’t find a way out of, about how the Psychedelic Sixties, this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness . . . how a certain hand might reach terribly out of darkness and reclaim the time, easy as taking a joint from a doper and stubbing it out for good. ~ Thomas Pynchon,
1430:At HQ, meantime, the Dispatcher of Inspectors is cackling hatefully as he cuddles his Bradshaw's Railway Guide, for the train the inspectors will catch at Victoria has a restaurant car but it is too late for what British Rail jestingly calls "breakfast" and too early for a life-giving drink. Heh, heh! At Eastbourne, they [the bank inspectors] stamp into the bank's Market Street branch, flourishing many a dread credential and reciting an Ogden Nash-like poem which goes after this fashion:
Keys,
Please.
Then they glance swiftly around to observe which cashier has gone green about the gills, which teller is slipping his pocket-money back into the petty-cash box and feeding the racing pages of the Daily Mirror into the shredding machine, which assistant manager is sidling out in the general direction of Gatwick Airport. ~ Kyril Bonfiglioli,
1431:The epithet Sindhusthan besides being Vedic had also a curious advantage which could only be called lucky and yet is too substantial to be ignored. The word Sindhu in Sanskrit does not only mean the Indus but also the Sea-which girdles the southern peninsula—so that this one word Sindhu points out almost all frontiers of the land at a single stroke. Even if we do not accept the tradition that the river Brahmaputra is only a branch of the Sindhu which falls into flowing streams on the eastern and western slopes of the Himalayas and thus constitutes both our eastern as well as western frontiers. still it is indisputably true that it circumscribes our northern and western extremities in its sweep and so the epithet Sindhusthan calls up the image of our whole Motherland : the land that lies between Sindhu and Sindhu—from the Indus to the Seas. ~ Anonymous,
1432:First days of Spring-the sky
is bright blue, the sun huge and warm.
Everything's turning green.
Carrying my monk's bowl, I walk to the village
to beg for my daily meal.
The children spot me at the temple gate
and happily crowd around,
dragging to my arms till I stop.
I put my bowl on a white rock,
hang my bag on a branch.
First we braid grasses and play tug-of-war,
then we take turns singing and keeping a kick-ball in the air:
I kick the ball and they sing, they kick and I sing.
Time is forgotten, the hours fly.
People passing by point at me and laugh:
"Why are you acting like such a fool?"
I nod my head and don't answer.
I could say something, but why?
Do you want to know what's in my heart?
From the beginning of time: just this! just this!

~ Taigu Ryokan, First Days Of Spring - The sky
,
1433:Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk. Perhaps we feel inclined to disagree with Him. But there is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and He wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will—that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings—then we may take it it is worth paying. When ~ C S Lewis,
1434:Crossing the Swamp"

Here is the endless
wet thick
cosmos, the center
of everything—the nugget
of dense sap, branching
vines, the dark burred
faintly belching
bogs. Here
is swamp, here
is struggle,
closure—
pathless, seamless,
peerless mud. My bones
knock together at the pale
joints, trying
for foothold, fingerhold,
mindhold over
such slick crossings, deep
hipholes, hummocks
that sink silently
into the black, slack
earthsoup. I feel
not wet so much as
painted and glittered
with the fat grassy
mires, the rich
and succulent marrows
of earth—a poor
dry stick given
one more chance by the whims
of swamp water—a bough
that still, after all these years,
could take root,
sprout, branch out, bud—
make of its life a breathing
palace of leaves. ~ Mary Oliver,
1435:Torn clothing littered the ground, more hung from bushes. Nick held up half a pair of white panties and grinned at me.

"Wild dogs? Or just Clayton?"

"Oh God," I muttered under my breath.

I walked over to snatch the underwear from him, but he held it over his head, grinning like a schoolboy.

"I see Paris, I see France, I see Elena's underpants," he chanted.

"Everyone's already seen much more than that," Jeremy said. "I think we can safely resume the search."

Peter plucked Clay's shirt from a low-hanging branch and held it up, peering through a hole in the middle. "You guys can really do some damage. Where's the hidden video when you need it?"

"So this--uh--wasn't done by wild dogs?" one of the searchers said.

Peter grinned and tossed the shirt to the ground. "Nope. Just wild hormones. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1436:The Connecticut River
March 2, 1704
Temperature 10 degrees

They marched.
“Ask your Indian his name,” Mercy said softly to Eben. “They like that.”
So Eben patted his chest and said, “Eben.” Then he touched his Indian’s arm and said, “Who are you?”
“Thorakwaneken.”
Eben said it over and over until Thorakwaneken nodded and Eben supposed he had the pronunciation right.
Mercy pointed to a squirrel sitting on a branch. “Thorakwaneken,” she said, “what is that?”
Arosen.”
“Arosen,”
repeated Mercy, and Eben echoed her. Arosen. Squirrel.
Eben would rather have had that knife pierce his chest and kill him than live to acquire an Indian vocabulary, but it was something to do and it kept Mercy cheerful. Eben did not much care if he lived, but he could not bear the thought of one more girl dying. ~ Caroline B Cooney,
1437:With the passage of days in this godly isolation [desert], my heart grew calm. It seemed to fill with answers. I did not ask questions any more; I was certain. Everything - where we came from, where we are going, what our purpose is on earth - struck me as extremely sure and simple in this God-trodden isolation. Little by little my blood took on the godly rhythm. Matins, Divine Liturgy, vespers, psalmodies, the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening, the constellations suspended like chandeliers each night over the monastery: all came and went, came and went in obedience to eternal laws, and drew the blood of man into the same placid rhythm. I saw the world as a tree, a gigantic poplar, and myself as a green leaf clinging to a branch with my slender stalk. When God's wind blew, I hopped and danced, together with the entire tree. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis,
1438:Looks like they might cancel school on Monday. Woot!
Information like this coming from Lucy is generally pretty reliable, since she happens to live right next door to Mrs. Crawford, the principal of Magnolia Branch High.
Yay, I can sit home and watch more Weather Channel! I text back.
This is an intervention--step away from the TV! NOW!
I laugh aloud at that. It’s such a typical Lucy-like thing to say.
My mom’s worried about you. Wants you to pack up and come over here.
Can’t. But Ryder’s coming over if the storm gets bad.

Lucy’s next text is just a line of googly eyes.
Not funny, I type, even though it kind of us.
You two can plan your wedding menu. Choose your linens. Stuff like that, she texts, followed by a smiley face.
I gaze at my phone with a frown. Also not funny. ~ Kristi Cook,
1439:THE BREAK OF ULSTER   Of the line of Ir, son of Milesius, to whom Ulster had been ap- portioned, that Branch called the Clan na Rory (after its great founder, Rory, who had been King of Ulster, and also High-King of Ireland) now had ruled the province for nearly 700 years, namely, for more than 300 years before the Christian Era, and more than 300 years after. And their capital city and the King’s seat had been at Emain Macha. During practically all of this time, from that fort’s first founding by Queen Macha, the Royal Court of Ulster had been a court of splendour, and ever noted as a centre of chivalry and the home of poetry. And the power, and might, and courage of Ulster had ever acted as a brake on the ambitions of their neighbouring royal depredators, and especially the royal aggressors of Connaught, who were made to fear Ulster’s name. But ~ Seumas MacManus,
1440:But before they could arrive at a consensus they came across a streampercolating through the woods.
It was a lovely little winter stream, wide and shallow and perfectly clear, twinkling and lapping along as if it were delighted to have just found this twisty channel. Wordlessly, they gathered at its edge. The rocks were capped with round dollops of snow, and the quieter eddies along the banks had iced over. A branch poking up in the middle of the stream was hung with fabulous Gothic-sculpted icy drops and buttresses all along its length. There was nothing overtly supernatural about it, but it temporarily satisfied their appetite for wonder. On Earth it would have been a charming little rill, nothing more, but the fact that they were seeing it in Fillory, in another world, possibly the first Earth beings ever to do so, made it a glittering miracle. ~ Lev Grossman,
1441:I’m here!” Squirrelflight’s voice was high-pitched with terror. “I’m going to push a branch through to you. You can run along it to escape before it catches fire.” “Right. We’ll be ready,” Lionblaze replied. Hollyleaf felt a jolt of gratitude for her brother’s courage. Without him, she was certain she would have panicked, trapped between the fire and the long drop into the camp. But they would stick together, the three of them, protected by the prophecy as they had always been. Hollyleaf could hear the sound of something heavy being dragged through the undergrowth beyond the flames. Her burst of confidence blew away like ash. “She’ll never manage it,” she muttered to Lionblaze. “What about her wound? She’s not strong enough.” “Squirrelflight will always do what she has to,” Lionblaze replied. Small tongues of flame were creeping through the grass now; rain ~ Erin Hunter,
1442:Hamburg coffee auction: 1000's of sacks of coffee being sold, of different names & places of origin. They talked of price, analyzed merits of packaging and transport, praised the climate of some years & varying abundance of rainfall in some regions of world but not a single word was said of the men and women from whose hands these coffee beans had originated. no mention of the Tanzanian farmer who had discerned from the leaves the right moment to separate beans from branch. Not a single voice spoke of the Guatemalan peasant woman who, carrying a child on her back, climbed to the realm of the clouds to bring down the fruits that would brighten up the mornings in Europe.
Sebastiao Salgado does: restores the epic human sacrifice, the omnipresent dignity of work in the magnificent solemnity of his venture--recounting history of the world in images. ~ Luis Sep lveda,
1443:Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch of the process of overcoming one's own innate sense that things are inherently produced. The innate non-analytical intellect does not conceive cause and effect to be either the same, or inherently different, or both, or neither; however, if the objects that the intellect misconceives as inherently existent did in fact inherently exist, they would necessarily exist in one of these four ways. Thus, through eliminating these four possibilities, the inherently existent products that are the objects of this innate ignorance are shown to be non-existent. By attacking in this way the falsely conceived object, the falsely conceiving subject is gradually overcome. The false subject is removed by overcoming belief in the false object. ~ Jeffrey Hopkins,
1444:The Prophetess
While men keep going to Delphi
To learn about the hidden future,
I should have been a hill
By the roadside covered with snow.
On the branch of a tree where leaves
Wither in the heat of the burning Troy,
I should have been a bird
With the spring crushed in the parched throat.
By the side of the master sage
Who drank from the cup filled with hemlock,
I should have been a night
Cursed by his disciples filled with grief.
I should have been the fate
Endorsed by the master who welcomed the grief.
As the centuries gallop by in a chain,
Their hoofs beating hard,
I should have been the cross
Carried by Poulose to Corinth.
As the end of the era collapses and falls
Somewhere on the Byzantine highway,
I should have been a palm-leaf note
Wrapped up in a dirty rag.
~ Ayyappa Paniker,
1445:If it’s a girl, I want to name her Grace.”

“Okay, if it’s a boy, I think we should name him Hamsel,” I said, straight-faced.

“What?” Her tone was not nice.

“Yeah, I’ve always loved the name Hamsel, or we can name him Wilbur Jr. and just call him Junior for short.” I finally had mercy when Mia’s eyes were open as wide as they would go. “I’m kidding. What names do you like?”

“For a boy, hmm. I don’t know; we’ll have to think on it. I really like Birch or Branch, you know something earthy…maybe Webb.” I laughed but she deadpanned, “What? I mean if you don’t like those, I also really like Stream or Haze.”

Oh my God, she’s serious.

She tilted her head to the side, smiled, and cackled like a witch. “Ha, ha, Will. Two can play this game.”

“Thank God, I thought you were serious. Shit.”

She socked me in the chest ~ Renee Carlino,
1446:Always.
In the twilight of the morphling, Peeta whispers the word and I go searching for him. It's a gauzy, violet-tinted world, with no hard edges, and many places to hide. I push through cloud banks, follow faint tracks, catch the scent of cinnamon, of dill. Once I feel his hand on my cheek and try to trap it, but it dissolves like mist through my fingers.

When I finally begin to surface into the sterile hospital room in 13, I remember. I was under the influence of sleep syrup. My heel had been injured after I'd climbed out on a branch over the electric fence and dropped back into 12. Peeta had put me to bed and I had asked him to stay with me as I was drifting off. He had whispered something I couldn't quite catch. But some part of my brain had trapped his single word of reply and let it swim up through my dreams to taunt me now. "Always. ~ Suzanne Collins,
1447:And out floated Eeyore.
"Eeyore!" cried everybody.
Looking very calm, very dignified, with his legs in the air, came Eeyore from beneath the bridge.
"It's Eeyore!" cried Roo, terribly excited.
"Is that so?" said Eeyore, getting caught up by a little eddy, and turning slowly round three times. "I wondered."
"I didn't know you were playing," said Roo.
"I'm not," said Eeyore.
"Eeyore, what are you doing there?" said Rabbit.
"I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak-tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer."
"But, Eeyore," said Pooh in distress, "what can we--I mean, how shall we--do you think if we--"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "One of those would be just the thing. Thank you, Pooh. ~ A A Milne,
1448:The sun had come up brilliantly after a heavy rain, and the trees were glistening and very wet. On some impulse, plain exuberance, I suppose, the fellow jumped up and caught hold of a branch, and a storm of luminous water came pouring down on the two of them, and they laughed and took off running, the girl sweeping water off her hair and her dress as if she were a little bit disgusted, but she wasn’t. It was a beautiful thing to see, like something from a myth. I don’t know why I thought of that now, except perhaps because it is easy to believe in such moments that water was made primarily for blessing, and only secondarily for growing vegetables or doing the wash. I wish I had paid more attention to it. My list of regrets may seem unusual, but who can know that they are, really. This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
1449:Hang him from a tree he hasn't hung from yet.
Fling him off a bridge no one's been flung from yet.
Send succor, in whatever dark disguise:
a hornet's nest he's not gone running, stung, from yet.
Early fall, and not one branch the wind
has not stripped every leaf that clung from yet.
Recess. Winter. Second or third grade.
A frozen pipe he hasn't freed his tongue from yet.
The drought seems endless. Spring. No dropp of rain.
Just parched soil no shoot has sprung from yet.
Find it in some corner of the workshop,
some damp rag no last dropp has been wrung from yet?
Probe the dank recesses of the cellarnot one cask he hasn't yanked the bung from yet.
He'd have it be a tower, not a steeplethe height in him no bell has rung from yet.
Not by wit or rhetoric alone
will Eric find a voice he hasn't sung from yet.
~ Eric Torgersen,
1450:How calmly does the orange branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer,
With no betrayal of despair.

Sometime while night obscures the tree
The zenith of its life will be
Gone past forever, and from thence
A second history will commence.

A chronicle no longer gold,
A bargaining with mist and mould,
And finally the broken stem
The plummeting to earth; and then

An intercourse not well designed
For beings of a golden kind
Whose native green must arch above
The earth's obscene, corrupting love.

And still the ripe fruit and the branch
Observe the sky begin to blanch
Without a cry, without a prayer,
With no betrayal of despair.

O Courage, could you not as well
Select a second place to dwell,
Not only in that golden tree
But in the frightened heart of me? ~ Tennessee Williams,
1451:The thing about trees is that they know what to do. When a leaf loses its colour, it's not because its time is up and it's dying, it's because the tree is taking back into itself the nutrients the leaf's been holding in reserve for it, out there on the twig, and why leaves change colour in autumn is because the tree is preparing for winter, it's filling itself with its own stored health so it can withstand the season. Then, clever tree, it literally pushes the used leaf off with the growth that's coming behind it. But because that growth has to protect itself through winter too, the tree fills the little wound in its branch or twig where the leaf was with a protective corky stuff which seals it against cold and bacteria.

Otherwise every leaf lost would be an open wound on a tree and a single tree would be covered in thousands of little wounds.

Clever trees. ~ Ali Smith,
1452:Remember how we forgot?
Once upon a time, we were young
Our dreams hung like apples
Waiting to be picked and peeled
And hope was something needing to be reeled-in
So we can fill the always empty big fish bin with the one that got away
And proudly say that "this time, impossible is not an option"
Because success is so akin to effort and opportunity they could be related
So we took chances
We figure skated on thin ice
Believed that each slice of life was served with something sweet on the side
And failure was never nearly as important as the fact that we tried
That in the war against frailty and limitation
We supplied the determination it takes to make ideas and goals the parents of Possibility
And we believe ourselves to be members of this family
Not just one branch on one tree
But a forest whose roots make up a dynasty ~ Shane L Koyczan,
1453:Jee Nehein Lagta Ujrey Diyaar Mein (English)
My heart has no repose in this despoiled land
Who has ever felt fulfilled in this futile world?
The nightingale complains about neither the sentinel nor the hunter
Fate had decreed imprisonment during the harvest of spring
Tell these longings to go dwell elsewhere
What space is there for them in this besmirched heart?
Sitting on a branch of flowers, the nightingale rejoices
It has strewn thorns in the garden of my heart
I asked for a long life, I received four days
Two passed in desire, two in waiting.
The days of life are over, evening has fallen
I shall sleep, legs outstretched, in my tomb
How unfortunate is Zafar! For his burial
Not even two yards of land were to be had, in the land of his beloved.
[Translation from Urdu Poem 'Jee Nehein Lagta Ujrey Diyaar Mein']
~ Bahadur Shah,
1454:Let him then, who would be indeed a Christian, watch over his ways and over his heart with unceasing circumspection. Let him endeavour to learn, both from men and books, particularly from the lives of eminent Christians, what methods have been actually found most effectual for the conquest of every particular vice, and for improvement in every branch of holiness. Thus studying his own character, and observing the most secret workings of his own mind, and of our common nature; the knowledge which he will acquire of the human heart in general, and especially of his own, will be of the highest utility, in enabling him to avoid or to guard against the occasions of evil: and it will also tend, above all things, to the growth of humility, and to the maintenance of that sobriety of spirit and tenderness of conscience, which are eminently characteristic of the true Christian. ~ William Wilberforce,
1455:Smiling at her the boy said, "Games, then? Would that be better? There are events that I must shape. I must arouse fire that burns, that sears. Scripture says:

For He is like a refiner's fire.

And Scripture also says:

And who can abide the day of His coming?

I say, however, that it will be more than this; I say:

The day comes, glowing like a furnace; all the arrogant and the evil-doers shall be chaff, and that day when it comes shall set them ablaze; it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

What do you say to that, Herb Asher?" Emmanuel gazed at him intently, awaiting his response.
Zina said:

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in his wings.

"That is true," Emmanuel said.
In a low voice Elias said:

And you shall break loose like calves released from the stall. ~ Philip K Dick,
1456:We don’t do big magic. Lucinda’s the only one. It’s too dangerous.”
“What’s dangerous about ending a storm?”
“Maybe nothing, maybe something. Use your imagination.”
“Clear skies would be good. People could go outside.”
“Use your imagination,” Mandy repeated.
I thought. “The grass needs rain. The crops need rain.”
“More,” Mandy said.
“Maybe a bandit was going to rob someone, and he isn’t doing it because of the weather.”
“That’s right. Or maybe I’d start a drought, and then I’d have to fix that because I started it. And then maybe the rain I sent would knock down a branch and smash in the roof of a house, and I’d have to fix that too.”
“That wouldn’t be your fault. The owners should have built a stronger roof.”
“Maybe, maybe not. Or maybe I’d cause a flood and people would be killed. That’s the problem with big magic. I only do little magic ~ Gail Carson Levine,
1457:The Poet With His Face In His Hands

You want to cry aloud for your
mistakes. But to tell the truth the world
doesn’t need anymore of that sound.

So if you’re going to do it and can’t
stop yourself, if your pretty mouth can’t
hold it in, at least go by yourself across

the forty fields and the forty dark inclines
of rocks and water to the place where
the falls are flinging out their white sheets

like crazy, and there is a cave behind all that
jubilation and water fun and you can
stand there, under it, and roar all you

want and nothing will be disturbed; you can
drip with despair all afternoon and still,
on a green branch, its wings just lightly touched

by the passing foil of the water, the thrush,
puffing out its spotted breast, will sing
of the perfect, stone-hard beauty of everything. ~ Mary Oliver,
1458:First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels
Cool black night thru redwoods
cars parked outside in shade
behind the gate, stars dim above
the ravine, a fire burning by the side
porch and a few tired souls hunched over
in black leather jackets. In the huge
wooden house, a yellow chandelier
at 3 A.M. the blast of loudspeakers
hi-fi Rolling Stones Ray Charles Beatles
Jumping Joe Jackson and twenty youths
dancing to the vibration thru the floor,
a little weed in the bathroom, girls in scarlet
tights, one muscular smooth skinned man
sweating dancing for hours, beer cans
bent littering the yard, a hanged man
sculpture dangling from a high creek branch,
children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks.
And 4 police cars parked outside the painted
gate, red lights revolving in the leaves.
December 1965
~ Allen Ginsberg,
1459:What were he and his friends doing, really, other than hanging from a branch, sticking their tongues out to catch the sweetness? He thought about the people he knew, with their excellent young bodies, their summerhouses, their cool clothes, their potent drugs, their liberalism, their orgasms, their haircuts. Everything they did was either pleasurable in itself or engineered to bring pleasure down the line. Even the people he knew who were "political" and who protested the war in El Salvador did so largely in order to bathe themselves in an attractively crusading light. And the artists were the worst, the painters and the writers, because they believed they were living for art when they were really feeding their narcissism. Mitchell had always prided himself on his discipline. He studied harder than anyone he knew. But that was just his way of tightening his grip on the branch. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides,
1460:She saw beauty in ordinary little things and took pleasure in it (and this was just as well because she had had very little pleasure in her life). She took pleasure in a well-made cake, a smoothly ironed napkin, a pretty blouse, laundered and pressed; she liked to see the garden well dug, the rich soil brown and gravid; she loved her flowers. When you are young you are too busy with yourself... you haven't time for ordinary little things but, when you leave youth behind, your eyes open and you see magic and mystery all around you: magic in the flight of a bird, the shape of a leaf, the bold arch of a bridge against the sky, footsteps at night and a voice calling in the darkness, the moment in a theatre before the curtain rises, the wind in the trees, or (in winter) an apple-branch clothed with pure white snow and icicles hanging from from a stone and sparkling with rainbow colours. ~ D E Stevenson,
1461:It is not quite as dark here as we thought. On the contrary, the interior is pulsating with light. It is, of course, the internal light of roots, a wandering phosphorescence, tiny veins of a light marbling the darkness, an evanescent shimmer of nightmarish substances. Likewise, when we sleep, severed from the world, straying into deep introversion, on a return journey into ourselves, we can see clearly through our closed eyelids, because thoughts are kindled in us by internal tapers and smolder erratically. This is how total regressions occur, retreats into self, journeys to the roots. This is how we branch out into anamnesis and are shaken by underground subcutaneous shivers. For it is only above ground, in the light of day, that we are a trembling, articulate bundle of tunes; in the depth we disintegrate again into black murmurs, confused purring, a multitude of unfinished stories. ~ Bruno Schulz,
1462:When the workers of a single factory or of a single branch of industry engage in struggle against their employer or employers, is this class struggle? No, this is only a weak embryo of it. The struggle of the workers becomes a class struggle only when all the foremost representatives of the entire working class of the whole country are conscious of themselves as a single working class and launch a struggle that is directed, not against individual employers, but against the entire class of capitalists and against the government that supports that class. Only when the individual worker realizes that he is a member of the entire working class, only when he recognises the fact that his petty day-to-day struggle against individual employers and individual government officials is a struggle against the entire bourgeoisie and the entire government, does his struggle become a class struggle. ~ Vladimir Lenin,
1463:She heard Rowan awake with a start before he reconciled himself to his surroundings. His back scraped across the trunk of the tree as he slid sideways--trying to see around the branch she was sitting on to get a look at her.
"Are you awake?" he asked, his voice still rough from sleep.
"Yeah."
"Did you sleep at all?"
"No." She heard him mumble something to himself and decided to cut him off before he could scold her again. "My butt did, though. Slept like a log all night."
"Well, obviously, your butt has more sense than you do."
"You're a funny man, Rowan whatever your last name is."
"Fall."
"I'd rather not."
She managed to get a tiny chuckle out of him, which she considered a huge achievement. Rowan stood up on his branch, bringing his head level with Lily's, and started to untie her. His lips were still pursed in a near smile.
"My name is Rowan Fall. ~ Josephine Angelini,
1464:According to this scenario, one branch of this group traveled down the east side of the Caspian Sea and continued east through Afghanistan, reaching the Punjab before the middle of the second millennium BCE.9 But to say that the languages formed a family is not to say that the people who spoke them formed a race. There is nothing intrinsically racist about this story of linguistic migration. On the contrary, the eighteenth-century discovery of the Indo-European link was, at first, a preracial discovery of brotherhood; these people are our (linguistic) cousins. But then the nineteenth-century Orientalists, who now had a theory of race to color their perceptions, gave it a distinctly racist thrust. Their attitude to the nineteenth-century inhabitants of India came to something like “Well, they are black, but their skin color is irrelevant; they are white inside, Greek inside, just like us. ~ Wendy Doniger,
1465:For God’s sake, Marks,” he said irritably, “you’re getting as scrawny as a birch branch.” “Leo,” Win protested. Catherine shot him a look of outrage. “I’m not the one whose trousers are being taken in.” “You look half dead from malnourishment,” Leo went on with a scowl. “What’s the matter with you? Why aren’t you eating?” “Ramsay,” Merripen murmured, evidently deciding a boundary had been crossed. Catherine shot up from her chair and glared at Leo. “You’re a bully, and a hypocrite, and you have no right to criticize my appearance, so … so…” She cast about wildly for the right phrase. “Bugger you!” And she stormed from the parlor, her skirts rustling angrily. Merripen and Win watched with open mouths. “Where did you learn that word?” Leo demanded, hard on her heels. “From you,” she said vehemently over her shoulder. “Do you even know what it means?” “No, and I don’t care. Stay away from me! ~ Lisa Kleypas,
1466:I, too, like to read. Once a month, I go to the local branch. For myself, I pick a novel and, for Bruno, with his cataracts, a book on tape. At first Bruno was doubtful. “What am I supposed to do with this?” he said, looking at the box set of “Anna Karenina” as if I’d handed him an enema. And yet. A day or two later I was going about my business when a voice from above bellowed, ALL HAPPY FAMILIES RESEMBLE ONE ANOTHER, nearly giving me a conniption. After that, he listened to whatever I’d brought him at top volume and then returned it to me without comment. One afternoon, I came back from the library with Ulysses. For a month straight he listened. He had a habit of pressing the stop button and rewinding when he hadn’t fully grasped something. INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT. Pause, rewind. INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE. Pause, rewind. INELUCTABLE MODALITY. Pause. INELUCT. ~ Nicole Krauss,
1467:Christ Jesus said: “I am the Vine, ye are the branches.” In other words: “I, the living One who have so completely given myself to you, am the Vine. You cannot trust me too much. I am the Almighty Worker, full of a divine life and power.” You are the branches of the Lord Jesus Christ. If there is in your heart the consciousness that you are not a strong, healthy, fruit-bearing branch, not closely linked with Jesus, not living in Him as you should be—then listen to Him say: “I am the Vine, I will receive you, I will draw you to myself, I will bless you, I will strengthen you, I will fill you with my Spirit. I, the Vine, have taken you to be my branches, I have given myself utterly to you; children, give yourselves utterly to me. I have surrendered myself as God absolutely to you; I became man and died for you that I might be entirely yours. Come and surrender yourselves entirely to be mine. ~ Andrew Murray,
1468:At the office, I found an X in marker on the floor beside the trash can. I moved it and found another note. Another dotted line, this one leading outside to another X. That one ended just inside the forest, where I found a third note under a pebble…It was blank.
I looked up.
Rafe’s laugh floated down from the trees. “Can’t fool you, huh?”
I scaled the tree. When I reached his branch, he was sitting there, legs dangling.
“Will that branch hold two?” I said, looking at it.
“Maybe. The question is whether you’re willing to risk it.”
I swung onto the branch and started sidling out.
He grinned. “Dumb question, wasn’t it?”
“It was.”
“You can’t resist me.”
“No, I can’t resist a dare.”
I stopped. He looked at the distance between us and lifted his brows.
“This seems close enough,” I said. “For safety’s sake.”
“Safe from the branch breaking? Or from me? ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1469:It would indeed seem more expedient to treat the history of thought in terms borrowed from biology..(, with) "evolution" .. a wasteful, fumbling process characterized by sudden mutations of unknown cause, by the slow grinding of selection, and by the dead-ends of overspecialization and rigid inadaptability.. New ideas are thrown up spontaneously like mutations; the vast majority of them are useless crank theories, the equivalent of biological freaks without survival-value. There is a constant struggle for survival between competing theories in every branch of the history of thought. The process of "natural selection", too, has its equivalent in mental evolution: among the multitude of new concepts which emerge only those survive which are well adapted to the period's intellectual milieu. A new theoretical concept will live or die according to whether it can come to terms with this environment.. ~ Arthur Koestler,
1470:Jefferson must have regretted having arrived so late. He had no doubt that the original holders of government paper had been cheated of rightful gains by speculators who were “fraudulent purchasers of this paper. . . . Immense sums were thus filched from the poor and ignorant and fortunes accumulated by those who had themselves been poor enough before.”42 Jefferson’s objections to Hamilton’s plan had philosophical roots. In his view, the smaller the government, the better the chances of preserving liberty. And to the extent that a central government was necessary, he wanted a strong Congress with a weak executive. Most of all, Jefferson wished to preserve state sovereignty against federal infringement. Since Hamilton’s agenda was to strengthen the central government, bolster the executive branch at the expense of the legislature, and subordinate the states, it embodied everything Jefferson abhorred. ~ Ron Chernow,
1471:In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to me to underlie our apparently ordinary lives. Certainly that cast of mind had some of its origin in our pit, which had much the character of a Protestant Hell. I was probably the most entranced listener to a sermon the Reverend Andrew Bowyer preached about Gehenna, the hateful valley outside the walls of Jerusalem, where outcasts lived, and where their flickering fires, seen from the city walls, may have given rise to the idea of a hell of perpetual burning. He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same sort of place as Gehenna. My elders thought this far-fetched, but I saw no reason then why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since. ~ Robertson Davies,
1472:I stayed in a dark corner of the house dreaming the story of the poverella's waterlogged, lifeless body, a silver anchovy to be preserved in salt. And whenever, later, I played at whipping the air to get it to whine, I thought of her, the woman in salt. I heard the voice of her drowning, as she slid through the water all night, as far as Capo Miseno. Now, just thinking about it, I felt like whipping the air of the pinewood harder and harder, like a child, to evoke the spirits, perhaps to chase them away, and the more energy I put into it, the sharper the whistle became. I burst into laughter, alone, seeing myself like that, a thirty-eight-year-old woman in serious trouble who suddenly returns to her childhood game. Yes, I said to myself, we do, we imagine, even as adults, a lot of silly things, out of joy or exhaustion. And I laughed, waving that long thin branch, and felt more and more like laughing. ~ Elena Ferrante,
1473:The socialized factories (In revolutionary Catalonia) were led by a management committee with between five and thirteen members, representing the various services, elected by the workers in a general assembly, with a two- year term, half of them to be renewed every year. The committee selected a director to whom it delegated all or part of its powers. In the key factories the selection of the director had to be approved by the regulatory body. In addition, a government inspector was placed on every management committee. The management committee could be revoked either by the general assembly or by a general council of the branch of industry (composed of four representatives of the management committees, eight from the workers' unions, and four technicians named by the regulatory body). This general council planned the work and deter- mined the distribution of profits. Its decisions were legally binding. ~ Daniel Gu rin,
1474:If you’d like to dig more deeply into the real-life history of baby farms, orphanages, changes in adoption, Georgia Tann, and the scandal surrounding the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis, you’ll find excellent information in Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children by Viviana A. Zelizer (1985), Babies for Sale: The Tennessee Children’s Home Adoption Scandal by Linda Tollett Austin (1993), Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America by Catherine Reef (2005), and The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption by Barbara Bisantz Raymond (2007), which also contains interviews with several of Georgia Tann’s victims. For a view of the scandal as it broke, see the original Report to Governor Gordon Browning on Shelby County Branch, Tennessee Children’s Home Society (1951), which is available through the public library system ~ Lisa Wingate,
1475:And this, she saw, her dream had done. She had built against that fear a vision of power not wholly selfish—power to protect not only herself, but others. And that vision—however partial it had been in those days—was worth following. For it led not away from the fear, as a dream of rule might do, but back into it. The pattern of her life—as she saw it then, clear and far away and painted in bright colors—the pattern of her life was like an intricate song, or the way the Kuakgan talked of the grove's interlacing trees. There below were the dream's roots, tangled in fear and despair, nourished in the death of friends, the bones of the strong, the blood of the living, and there high above were the dream's images, bright in the sun like banners or the flowering trees of spring. And to be that banner, or that flowering branch, meant being nourished by the same fears: meant encompassing them, not rejecting them. ~ Elizabeth Moon,
1476:he saw that at its center were Coretta and Yoki, unharmed. And then, having made sure of that, Martin Luther King became very calm, with what Branch calls “the remote calm of a commander.” Stepping back out on the porch, he held up his hand for silence. Everything was all right, he told the crowd. “Don’t get panicky. Don’t do anything panicky. Don’t get your weapons. If you have weapons, take them home. He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword. Remember that is what Jesus said. We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. I want you to love our enemies. Be good to them. This is what we must live by. We must meet hate with love.” The crowd was silent now, as King continued speaking. He himself might die, he said, but that wouldn’t matter. “If I am stopped, this movement will not stop. If I am stopped, our work will not stop. For what we are doing is right. What we are doing is just. ~ Robert A Caro,
1477:Oh what marvels fill me with thanksgiving!
The deep mahogany of a leaf once green. The feathered fronds of tiny icicles coating every twig and branch in a wintry landscape. The feel of goosebumps thawing after endured frozen temperatures. Both hands clamped around a hot mug of herbal tea. The aromatic whiff of mint under my nose. The stir of emotion from a child's cry for mommy. A gift of love detached of strings. Spotted lilies collecting raindrops in a cupped clump of petals. The vibrant mélange of colors on butterfly wings. The milky luster of a single pearl. Rainbows reflecting off iridescence bubbles. Awe-struck silence evoked by any form of beauty.
Avocado flecks in your eyes.
Warm hands on my face.
Sweetness on the tongue.
The harmony of voices.
An answered prayer.
A pink balloon.
A caress.
A smile.
More.
These have become my treasures
by virtue of thanksgiving. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
1478:The Conservative may ask the following questions: If words and their meaning can be manipulated or ignored to advance the Statist’s political and policy preferences, what then binds allegiance to the Statist’s words? Why should today’s law bind future generations if yesterday’s law does not bind this generation? Why should judicial precedent bind the nation if the Constitution itself does not? Why should any judicial determination based on a judge’s notion of what is “right” or “just” bind the individual if the individual believes the notion is wrong and unjust? Does not lawlessness beget lawlessness? Or is not the Statist really saying that the law is what he says it is, and that is the beginning and end of it? And if judges determine for society what is right and just, and if their purpose is to spread democracy or liberty, how can it be said that the judiciary is coequal with the executive or legislative branch? ~ Mark R Levin,
1479:One. Treating one’s duty in the space force as an ordinary job: despite working with dedication and responsibility, lacking enthusiasm and sense of mission and doubting the ultimate significance of one’s work. “Two. Passive waiting: believing that the outcome of the war depends on scientists and engineers; believing that prior to breakthroughs in basic research and key technologies, the space force is just a pipe dream, and subsequent confusion about the importance of its present work; being satisfied simply with completing tasks related to establishing this military branch; lacking innovation. “Three. Harboring unrealistic fantasies: requesting to use hibernation technology to leap four centuries into the future and take part in the Doomsday Battle directly. A number of younger comrades have already expressed this wish, and one has even submitted a formal application. On the surface, this is a positive state of mind, a ~ Liu Cixin,
1480:The Oswald shadings, the multiple images, the split perceptions—eye color, weapons caliber—these seem a foreboding of what is to come. The endless fact-rubble of the investigations. How many shots, how many gunmen, how many directions? Powerful events breed their own network of inconsistencies. The simple facts elude authentication. How many wounds on the President's body? What is the size and shape of the wounds? The multiple Oswald reappears. Isn't that him in a photograph of a crowd of people on the front steps of the Book Depository just as the shooting begins? A startling likeness, Branch concedes. He concedes everything. He questions everything, including the basic suppositions we make about our world of light and shadow, solid objects and ordinary sounds, and our ability to measure such things, to determine weight, mass and direction, to see things as they are, recall them clearly, be able to say what happened. ~ Don DeLillo,
1481:A full moon, although less splendid than that earlier on,lit everything around. Before I reached the point where I would have to leave the road and set off across country, the narrow path I was following seemed suddenly to end and disappear behind a large hedge, and there before me, as if blocking my way, stood a single, tall tree, very dark at first against the transparently clear night sky. Out of nowhere, a breeze got up. It set the tender stems of the grasses shivering, made the green blades of the reeds shudder and sent a ripple across the brown waters of a puddle. Like a wave, it lifted up the spreading branches of the tree and, murmuring, climbed the trunk, and then, suddenly, the leaves turned their undersides to the moon and the whole beech tree (because it was a beech) was covered in white as far as the topmost branch.It was only a moment, no more than that, but the memory of it will last as long as my life lasts. ~ Jos Saramago,
1482:you weren’t that unhappy. “Contrast him with the Air Corps man of the same education and longevity,” Stouffer wrote. His chance of getting promoted to officer was greater than 50 percent. “If he had earned a [promotion], so had the majority of his fellows in the branch, and his achievement was less conspicuous than in the MP’s. If he had failed to earn a rating while the majority had succeeded, he had more reason to feel a sense of personal frustration, which could be expressed as criticism of the promotion system.” Stouffer’s point is that we form our impressions not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally—by comparing ourselves to people “in the same boat as ourselves.” Our sense of how deprived we are is relative. This is one of those observations that is both obvious and (upon exploration) deeply profound, and it explains all kinds of otherwise puzzling observations. Which do you ~ Malcolm Gladwell,
1483:At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, until muscles twitch and thought is translated into motion; mechanical levers are pressed; electrons are rearranged; marks are made on paper.

At another time, in another place, light strikes the marks, reflects into a pair of high-precision optical instruments sculpted by nature after billions of years of random mutations; upside-down images are formed against two screens made up of millions of light-sensitive cells, which translate light into electrical pulses that go up the optic nerves, cross the chiasm, down the optic tracts, and into the visual cortex, where the pulses are reassembled into letters, punctuation marks, words, sentences, vehicles, tenors, thoughts.

The entire system seems fragile, preposterous, science fictional. ~ Ken Liu,
1484:What is aura? A peculiar web of space and time: the unique manifestation of a distance, however near it may be. To follow, while reclining on a summer’s noon, the outline of a mountain range on the horizon or a branch, which casts its shadow on the observer until the moment or  the hour partakes of their presence—this is to breathe in the aura of these mountains, of this branch. Today, people have as passionate an inclination to bring things close to themselves or even more to the masses, as to overcome uniqueness in every situation by reproducing it. Every day the need grows more urgent to possess an object in the closest proximity, through a picture or, better, a reproduction. And the reproduction, as the illustrated newspaper and weekly readily prove, distinguishes itself unmistakably from the picture. Uniqueness and permanence are as closely intertwined in the latter as transitoriness and reproducibility in the former. ~ Walter Benjamin,
1485:There was a young couple strolling along half a block ahead of me. The sun had come up brilliantly after a heavy rain, and the trees were glistening and very wet. On some impulse, plain exuberance, I suppose, the fellow jumped up and caught hold of a branch, and a storm of luminous water came pouring down on the two of them, and they laughed and took off running, the girl sweeping water off her hair and her dress as if she were a little bit disgusted, but she wasn’t. It was a beautiful thing to see, like something from a myth. I don’t know why I thought of that now, except perhaps because it is easy to believe in such moments that water was made primarily for blessing, and only secondarily for growing vegetables or doing the wash. I wish I had paid more attention to it. My list of regrets may seem unusual, but who can know that they are, really. This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it. ~ Marilynne Robinson,
1486:Symbols
I watched a rosebud very long
Brought on by dew and sun and shower,
Waiting to see the perfect flower:
Then, when I thought it should be strong,
It opened at the matin hour
And fell at evensong.
I watched a nest from day to day,
A green nest full of pleasant shade,
Wherein three speckled eggs were laid:
But when they should have hatched in May,
The two old birds had grown afraid
Or tired, and flew away.
Then in my wrath I broke the bough
That I had tended so with care,
Hoping its scent should fill the air;
I crushed the eggs, not heeding how
Their ancient promise had been fair:
I would have vengeance now.
But the dead branch spoke from the sod,
And the eggs answered me again:
Because we failed dost thou complain?
Is thy wrath just? And what if God,
Who waiteth for thy fruits in vain,
Should also take the rod?
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti,
1487:One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that the people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies
make better cakes than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. ~ Harper Lee,
1488:Most geniuses responsible for the major mutations in the history of thought seem to have certain features in common; on the one hand scepticism, often carried to the point of icon-oclasm, in their attitude towards traditional ideas, axioms and dogmas, towards everything that is taken for granted; on the other hand, an open-mindedness that verges on na- ïve credulity towards new concepts which seem to hold out some promise to their instinctive gropings. Out of this combination results that crucial capacity of perceiving a familiar object, situation, problem, or collection of data, in a sudden new light or new context: of seeing a branch not as part of a tree, but as a potential weapon or tool; of associating the fall of an apple not with its ripeness, but with the motion of the moon. The discoverer perceives relational patterns or functional analogies where nobody saw them before, as the poet perceives the image of a camel in a drifting cloud. ~ Anonymous,
1489:Each of these interlocutors provided Kushner with something of a tutorial on the limitations of presidential power—that Washington was as much designed to frustrate and undermine presidential power as to accommodate it. “Don’t let him piss off the press, don’t let him piss off the Republican Party, don’t threaten congressmen because they will fuck you if you do, and most of all don’t let him piss off the intel community,” said one national Republican figure to Kushner. “If you fuck with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you’ll have two or three years of a Russian investigation, and every day something else will leak out.” A vivid picture was painted for the preternaturally composed Kushner of spies and their power, of how secrets were passed out of the intelligence community to former members of the community or to other allies in Congress or even to persons in the executive branch and then to the press. ~ Michael Wolff,
1490:hat was then Now Johannes Cabal and Joey Granite stood before Billy Butler and said nothing. The smell of smoke said it all for them. Butler smiled nastily. “Oh. It’s—” As famous last words go, they lacked a certain something. “Uppercut, Joey,” said Cabal. Joey Granite delivered an uppercut of surpassing science and pugilistic artistry. It was a thing of beauty and kinetic poetry that might be long admired among people who enjoy watching other people beat the living daylights out of one another. It was also powerful enough to lift a small building off its foundations. Anything up to a branch library would have tottered and fallen. Billy Butler, despite a bit of a gut, simply wasn’t in the same league weight-wise. By some miracle, his head stayed on his body, but there was little doubt that the police would be making enquiries long before he hit the ground again. “Let us leave, Joey,” said Cabal as Butler vanished through the cloud base. ~ Jonathan L Howard,
1491:From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out.                 I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ~ Anonymous,
1492:Mortality
"And we shall be changed.""And we shall be changed."
Ye dainty mosses, lichens grey,
Pressed each to each in tender fold,
And peacefully thus, day by day,
Returning to their mould;
Brown leaves, that with aerial grace
Slip from your branch like birds a-wing,
Each leaving in the appointed place
Its bud of future spring; -If we, God's conscious creatures, knew
But half your faith in our decay,
We should not tremble as we do
When summoned clay to clay.
But with an equal patience sweet
We should put off this mortal gear,
In whatsoe'er new form is meet
Content to reappear.
Knowing each germ of life He gives
Must have in Him its source and rise,
Being that of His being lives
May change, but never dies.
Ye dead leaves, dropping soft and slow,
Ye mosses green and lichens fair,
Go to your graves, as I will go,
For God is also there.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik,
1493:Now, listen. What’s come before will come back around again. Republic was the way of the world before, and it’ll be the way again. And for a time everyone will cheer them on, and everything will be cozy-dosie, but there will come a time when things go sour and someone decides they got a better way of doing things. And the New Republic or the New-New Republic or the Republic We Got This Week will clamp down hard and then those people with the so-called better way will become the brave rebel alliance and the Republic will become the enemy and the wheel will turn once more.” He rubs his eyes. “I’m old enough to remember when the Republic shot itself right in the knee. It wasn’t taken over by the Empire. It became the Empire slowly, surely, not overnight but over years and decades. Fruit always tastes nice when it’s ripe. But it can’t stay like that. Every nice piece of fruit will rot on the branch if it hangs there long enough. You remember that. ~ Chuck Wendig,
1494:Marrying cousins was astoundingly common into the nineteenth century, and nowhere is this better illustrated than with the Darwins and their cousins the Wedgwoods (of pottery fame). Charles married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood, daughter of his beloved Uncle Josiah. Darwin's sister Caroline, meanwhile, married Josiah Wedgwood III, Emma's brother and the Darwin siblings' joint first cousin. Another of Emma's brothers, Henry, married not a Darwin but a first cousin from another branch of his own Wedgwood family, adding another strand to the family's wondrously convoluted genetics. Finally, Charles Langton, who was not related to either family, first married Charlotte Wedgwood, another daughter of Josiah and cousin of Charles, and then upon Charlotte's death married Darwin's sister Emily, thus becoming, it seems, his sister-in-law's sister-in-law's husband and raising the possibility that any children of the union would be their own first cousins. ~ Bill Bryson,
1495:The parable teaches us the nature of that union. The connection between the vine and the branch is a living one. No external, temporary union will suffice; no work of man can effect it: the branch, whether an original or an engrafted one, is such only by the Creator's own work, in virtue of which the life, the sap, the fatness, and the fruitfulness of the vine communicate themselves to the branch. And just so it is with the believer too. His union with his Lord is no work of human wisdom or human will, but an act of God, by which the closest and most complete life-union is effected between the Son of God and the sinner. "God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts." The same Spirit which dwelt and still dwells in the Son, becomes the life of the believer; in the unity of that one Spirit, and the fellowship of the same life which is in Christ, he is one with Him. As between the vine and branch, it is a life-union that makes them one. ~ Andrew Murray,
1496:Release isn’t stealing from us. It’s a gift—a gift to a woman weighed down, grasping her leaves in the midst of a snowstorm, desperate, so desperate for help. She can feel the twinges and hear the creaking sounds of a splitting break about to happen. She knows she can’t take much more. Tears well up in her upturned, pleading eyes. “God help me. It’s all too much. I’m tired and frustrated and so very worn-out.” The wind whips past her, trailing a whispered, “R-e-l-e-a-s-e.” She must listen or she will break. Her tree needs to be stripped and prepared for winter. But she can’t embrace winter until she lets go of fall. Like a tree, a woman can’t carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she’ll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring. No, release isn’t stealing a thing from her. From me. Or from you. Release brings with it the gift of peace. The beautiful, bare winter branch can now receive its snow. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
1497:seemed almost certain to the mathematicians that since the general first, second, third, and fourth degree equations can be solved by means of the usual algebraic operations such as addition, subtraction, and roots, then the general fifth degree equation and still higher degree equations could also be solved. For three hundred years this problem was a classic one. Hundreds of mature and expert mathematicians sought the solution, but a little boy found the full answer. The Frenchman Évariste Galois (1811— 1832), who refused to conform to school examinations but worked brilliantly and furiously on his own, showed that general equations of degree higher than the fourth cannot be solved by algebraic operations. To establish this result Galois created the theory of groups, a subject that is now at the base of modern abstract algebra and that transformed algebra from a a series of elementary techniques to a broad, abstract, and basic branch of mathematics. ~ Morris Kline,
1498:She was a wonder junkie. In her mind, she was a hill tribesman standing slack-jawed before the real Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon; Dorothy catching her first glimpse of the vaulted spires of the Emerald City of Oz; a small boy from darkest Brooklyn plunked down in the Corridor of Nations of the 1939 World’s Fair, the Trylon and Perisphere beckoning in the distance; she was Pocahontas sailing up the Thames estuary with London spread out before her from horizon to horizon. been voyaging between the stars when the ancestors of humans were still brachiating from branch to branch in the dappled sunlight of the forest canopy. Drumlin, like many others she had known over the years, had called her an incurable romantic; and she found herself wondering again why so many people thought it some embarrassing disability. Her romanticism had been a driving force in her life and a fount of delights. Advocate and practitioner of romance, she was off to see the Wizard. ~ Carl Sagan,
1499:Years passed. The trees in our yard grew taller. I watched my family and my friends and neighbors, the teachers whom I'd had or imaged having, the high school I had dreamed about. As I sat in the gazebo I would pretend instead that I was sitting on the topmost branch of the maple under which my brother had swallowed a stick and still played hide-and-seek with Nate, or I would perch on the railing of a stairwell in New York and wait for Ruth to pass near. I would study with Ray. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway on a warm afternoon of salty air with my mother. But I would end each day with my father in his den.

I would lay these photographs down in my mind, those gathered from my constant watching, and I could trace how one thing- my death- connected these images to a single source. No one could have predicted how my loss would change small moments on Earth. But I held on to those moments, hoarded them. None of them were lost as long as I was there. ~ Alice Sebold,
1500:Clouds bring back to mind her dress, the flowers her face.
Winds of spring caress the rail where sparkling dew-drops cluster.
If you cannot see her by the jewelled mountain top,
Maybe on the moonlit Jasper Terrace you will meet her.
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Hearing a Flute in Lo-yang City On a Spring Night by Li Po
From which window does a jade flute weave
Such sad music into the spring winds that swell Lo-yang?

Should it play the willow-breaking song tonight,
I would find it even harder to bear my longing for home.


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in Huangshan Poems from the T'ang Dynasty
(Cape Cod: 21st Editions, 2010)


Note: Lines 3-4 allude to a Chinese song that was commonly sung at parting, when a willow sprig was snapped from a branch and presented as a memento to the departing one.
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IN CHAPTERS [150/604]



  192 Poetry
  113 Integral Yoga
   64 Occultism
   47 Philosophy
   45 Fiction
   45 Christianity
   32 Yoga
   27 Mysticism
   15 Psychology
   13 Mythology
   11 Science
   9 Integral Theory
   5 Hinduism
   4 Kabbalah
   4 Baha i Faith
   3 Zen
   3 Sufism
   3 Philsophy
   3 Buddhism
   2 Theosophy
   2 Education
   1 Cybernetics
   1 Alchemy


   49 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   46 Sri Aurobindo
   36 James George Frazer
   33 H P Lovecraft
   29 The Mother
   27 Sri Ramakrishna
   23 Aleister Crowley
   22 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   21 William Wordsworth
   21 Satprem
   17 Percy Bysshe Shelley
   15 Walt Whitman
   14 William Butler Yeats
   14 Robert Browning
   14 John Keats
   11 Rabindranath Tagore
   11 Ovid
   10 Carl Jung
   8 Plotinus
   8 Plato
   8 Aldous Huxley
   6 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   6 Li Bai
   5 Lucretius
   5 Jorge Luis Borges
   5 Friedrich Schiller
   5 Anonymous
   4 Vyasa
   4 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   4 Saint John of Climacus
   4 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
   4 Friedrich Nietzsche
   4 Baha u llah
   3 Swami Vivekananda
   3 Ralph Waldo Emerson
   3 Rainer Maria Rilke
   3 Jordan Peterson
   3 Edgar Allan Poe
   2 Taigu Ryokan
   2 Swami Krishnananda
   2 Rudolf Steiner
   2 Nirodbaran
   2 Ken Wilber
   2 Kabir
   2 Joseph Campbell
   2 Jayadeva
   2 Jalaluddin Rumi
   2 Jakushitsu
   2 Hsuan Chueh of Yung Chia
   2 George Van Vrekhem
   2 Bokar Rinpoche
   2 Aristotle
   2 A B Purani


   36 The Golden Bough
   33 Lovecraft - Poems
   26 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   21 Wordsworth - Poems
   17 Shelley - Poems
   14 Yeats - Poems
   14 Whitman - Poems
   14 Magick Without Tears
   14 Keats - Poems
   14 Browning - Poems
   11 Tagore - Poems
   11 Savitri
   11 Metamorphoses
   9 The Phenomenon of Man
   9 The Bible
   9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
   8 The Perennial Philosophy
   8 Liber ABA
   7 The Future of Man
   7 Collected Poems
   6 The Secret Doctrine
   6 On the Way to Supermanhood
   6 Li Bai - Poems
   6 City of God
   5 Vedic and Philological Studies
   5 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   5 Talks
   5 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   5 Schiller - Poems
   5 Of The Nature Of Things
   5 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   5 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
   5 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
   4 Words Of Long Ago
   4 Vishnu Purana
   4 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   4 Questions And Answers 1956
   4 Let Me Explain
   4 Labyrinths
   4 General Principles of Kabbalah
   4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
   4 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   4 5.1.01 - Ilion
   3 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   3 The Divine Comedy
   3 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   3 Rilke - Poems
   3 Record of Yoga
   3 Questions And Answers 1955
   3 Questions And Answers 1953
   3 Maps of Meaning
   3 Kena and Other Upanishads
   3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   3 Emerson - Poems
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
   3 Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin
   3 Agenda Vol 13
   2 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
   2 The Study and Practice of Yoga
   2 The Life Divine
   2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
   2 The Book of Certitude
   2 Tara - The Feminine Divine
   2 Symposium
   2 Songs of Kabir
   2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
   2 Ryokan - Poems
   2 Rumi - Poems
   2 Preparing for the Miraculous
   2 Poetics
   2 Poe - Poems
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
   2 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
   2 On Education
   2 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   2 Letters On Yoga IV
   2 Isha Upanishad
   2 Hymn of the Universe
   2 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   2 Dark Night of the Soul
   2 Bhakti-Yoga
   2 Anonymous - Poems
   2 Agenda Vol 01


01.07 - Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   "The zeal for the Lord hath eaten me up." Such has indeed been the case with Pascal, almost literally. The fire that burned in him was too ardent and vehement for the vehicle, the material instrument, which was very soon used up and reduced to ashes. At twenty-four he was already a broken man, being struck with paralysis and neuras thenia; he died at the comparatively early age of 39, emulating, as it were, the life career of his Lord the Christ who died at 33. The Fire martyrised the body, but kindled and brought forth experiences and realisations that save and truths that abide. It was the Divine Fire whose vision and experience he had on the famous night of 23 November 1654 which brought about his final and definitive conversion. It was the same fire that had blazed up in his brain, while yet a boy, and made him a precocious genius, a marvel of intellectual power in the exact sciences. At 12 this prodigy discovered by himself the 32nd proposition of Euclid, Book I. At sixteen he wrote a treatise on conic sections. At nineteen he invented a calculating machine which, without the help of any mathematical rule or process, gave absolutely accurate results. At twenty-three he published his experiments with vacuum. At twenty-five he conducted the well-known experiment from the tower of St. Jacques, proving the existence of atmospheric pressure. His studies in infinitesimal calculus were remarkably creative and original. And it might be said he was a pioneer in quite a new branch of mathematics, viz., the mathematical theory of probability. We shall see presently how his preoccupation with the mathematics of chance and probability coloured and reinforced his metaphysics and theology.
   But the pressure upon his dynamic and heated brain the fiery zeal in his mindwas already proving too much and he was advised medically to take complete rest. Thereupon followed what was known as Pascal's mundane lifea period of distraction and dissipation; but this did not last long nor was it of a serious nature. The inner fire could brook no delay, it was eager and impatient to englobe other fields and domains. Indeed, it turned to its own field the heart. Pascal became initiated into the mystery of Faith and Grace. Still he had to pass through a terrible period of dejection and despair: the life of the world had given him no rest or relaxation, it served only to fill his cup of misery to the brim. But the hour of final relief was not long postponed: the Grace came to him, even as it came to Moses or St. Paul as a sudden flare of fire which burnt up the Dark Night and opened out the portals of Morning Glory.

0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   There is the whole Chaldean tradition, and there is also the Vedic tradition, and there was very certainly a tradition anterior to both that split into two branches. Well, all these occult experiences have been the same. Only the description differs depending upon the country and the language. The story of creation is not told from a metaphysical or psychological point of view, but from an objective point of view, and this story is as real as our stories of historical periods. Of course, its not the only way of seeing, but it is just as legitimate a way as the others, and in any event, it recognizes the concrete reality of all these divine beings. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists exhibit great similarities. The only difference is in the way they are expressed, but the manipulation of the forces is the same.
   I learned all this through Theon. Probably, he was I dont know if he was Russian or Polish (a Russian or Polish Jew), he never said who he really was or where he was born, nor his age nor anything.

0 1960-05-24 - supramental flood, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   This experience last night also enabled me to understand what X had felt during one of our meditations. He had explained his experience by way of saying that I was this mystic tree whose roots plunge into the Supreme and whose branches spread forth over the world,3 and he said that one of these branches had entered into himand it had been a unique experience. He had said, this is the Mother.
   And now I understand that what he had seen and translated by this Vedic image was that kind of perpetual flood.

0 1962-02-03, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   He was a professor at Montpellier University and lived nearby. And there were several roads leading to his house. This man would leave the university and come to the crossing where all those roads branched out, all eventually leading to his house, one this way, one that way, one from this side. So he himself used to explain how every day he would stop there at the crossroads and deliberate, Which one shall I take? Each had its advantages and disadvantages. So all this would go through his head, the advantages and disadvantages and this and that, and he would waste half an hour choosing which road to take home!
   He gave this as an example of thoughts inadequacy for action: if you begin to think, you cant act.

0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When it comes to languages, its very interesting. Those are things that come, stay for an hour or two, then go away; they are like lessons, things to be learned. And so, one day, there came the question of languages, of the different languages. Those languages were formed progressively (probably through usage, until, as you said, one day someone took it into his head to fix it in a logical and grammatical way), but behind those languages, there are identical experiencesidentical in their essence and there are certainly sounds that correspond to those experiences; you find those sounds in all languages, the different sounds with minor differences. One day (for a long time, more than an hour), it unfolded with all the evidence to support it, for all languages. Unfortunately, I couldnt see clearly, it was at night, so I couldnt note it down and it went away. But it should be able to come back. It was really interesting (Mother tries to recall the experience.) There were even languages I had never heard: Ive heard many European languages; in India, several Indian languages, chiefly Sanskrit; and then, Japanese. And there were languages I had never heard. It was all there. And there were sounds, certain sounds that come from all the way up, sounds (how can I explain?), sounds we might call essential. And I saw how they took shape and were distorted in languages (Mother draws a sinuous descending line that branches out). Sounds like the affirmative and the negativewhat, for us, is yes and noand also the expression of certain relationships (Mother tries to remember). But the interesting point was that it came with all the words, lots of words I didnt know! And at that time I knew them (it comes from a subconscient somewhere), I knew all those words.
   At the same time, there was a sort of capacity or possibility, a state in which one was able to understand all languages; that is, every language was understood because of its connection with that region (gesture to the heights, at the origin of sounds). There didnt seem to be any difficulty in understanding any language. There was a sort of almost graphic explanation (same sinuous descending line branching out) showing how the sound had been distorted to express this or that or
   Its a whole field of observation thats part of the study of vibrations: how essential vibrations are distorted as they spread out, and produce the different stateson the psychological level, on the level of thought, on the level of action, and also of languages, of expression.

0 1969-12-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You know that I am in contact with a few Ethiopians (I think its the country that has remained the most Christian all over the earth). Theres a boy whos a secretary in the embassy in Delhi (Ethiopias embassy), and hes quite taken, quite, and then (laughing) it was his birthday two days ago, and he came with a gift . Something in wood (in ebony), big like this, with my photo on one side, Sri Aurobindos photo on the other side, and in between a silver cross. And on the cross, at the junction of the two branches, there was on one side my symbol, and on the other side, Sri Aurobindos symbol . Whats in his head?!
   Horrible!

0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The underground passages arent in the shape of narrow passageways: there is a spiral stairway, and when you reach the top of the spiral, it branches out into a series of open staircases, hanging like footbridges. Its not closed, its all suspended.
   Wont there be accidents? Oh, theres no lack of hallucinated people who might break their heads on the ground. You see, its a little too mental to my taste, I mean that from a mental point of view its very attractive, but in vision

0 1971-10-27, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The tree of the knowledge of good and evil with its sweet and bitter fruits is secretly rooted in the very nature of the Inconscience from which our being has emerged and on which it still stands as a nether soil and basis of our physical existence; it has grown visibly on the surface in the manifold branchings of the Ignorance which is still the main bulk and condition of our consciousness in its difficult evolution towards a supreme consciousness and an integral awareness. As long as there is this soil with the unfound roots in it and this nourishing air and climate of Ignorance, the tree will grow and flourish and put forth its dual blossoms and its fruit of mixed nature. It would follow that there can be no final solution until we have turned our inconscience into the greater consciousness, made the truth of self and spirit our life-basis and transformed our ignorance into a higher knowledge. All other expedients will only be makeshifts or blind issues; a complete and radical transformation of our nature is the only true solution.
   The Life Divine, XVIII.627

0 1972-04-26, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Strange. I liked the book very much when I read it, but the only image that remains now is a primeval forest with a huge tree and you struggling to blaze your way through the tree thats what I see all the time (Mother looks again). Why? Thats it, thats what stayed in the consciousness. I can still see you with an axe, hacking off huge branches to open up a passage. Strange. Is it symbolic? Do you mention that scene in your book?
   Not exactly, but I lived something like that9its both true and symbolic at the same time.
  --
   That struck me very much. That and the huge tree. But the tree is larger than life, its symbolic; and with a big axe you are hacking off brancheshuge branches, as big as treesto open up a passage.
   Strange.
   Well, I guess Im still hacking away at branches!
   (Mother laughs) Yes, exactly! Thats right.

0 1972-05-17, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Then, I really looked, and on the branch of a tree (a coconut tree, I think, or a palm tree), I saw a bird it was mostly white, a bird much like a pigeon but with a very long tail and a kind of golden circle on its breast, I think.
   Oh!
   Its head was a little not quite orange, a little gerua3 (you know, like the earth), like that, and it was perched on a branch.
   (Pointing to Satprem) It was him.

0 1972-12-06, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (One can hear the axes hacking away at the broken branches of the great yellow flame tree called Service, which spreads its foliage above Sri Aurobindos tomb.)
   The tree that gave me all my Transformation flowers [from Satprems garden] is broken. The Service tree also: some of its branches have been torn off.
   Usually it didnt come this way.

02.03 - An Aspect of Emergent Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Professor Alexander spoke of the emergence of deities who would embody emergent properties other than those manifest in the Mind of man. Morgan asks whether there is not also a Deityor the Deityin the making. He establishes the logical necessity of such a consummation in this way: the evolutionary urge (or nisus, as it has been called) in its upward drive creates and throws up on all sides, at each stage, forms of the new property or principle of existence that has come into evidence. These multiple forms may appear anywhere and everywhere; they are strewn about on the entire surface of Nature. These are, however, the branchings of the evolutionary nisus which has a central line of advance running through the entire gradation of emergents; it is, as it were, the central pillar round which is erected a many-storeyed edifice. The interesting point is this, that at the present stage of emergence, what the central line touches and arrives at is the Deity. Or, again, the thing can be viewed in another way. At the bottom the evolutionary movement is broad-based on Matter but as it proceeds upward its extent is gradually narrowed down;
   Life is less extensive than Matter and Mind is still less extensive than Life. Thus the scheme of the movement can be figured as a pyramid the base of the pyramid represents Matter, but the apex where the narrowing sides converge is what is called the Deity.

02.06 - Boris Pasternak, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   If the leaves, branches, roots, trunk
   Had been granted a manual of freedom,

02.10 - Two Mystic Poems in Modern Bengali, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Swing, like bats on branches;
   Is now the time for the dance?
  --
   There is a call for all the parts of the being to precipitate to the very foundation of the being, coalesce and evoke a wild and weird, doleful and discordant symphonya painful cry. Unrealised dreams, that had faded into oblivion, are now like possessed beings and hang like bats on darkling branches:they are about to begin their phantom dance. Even so, the body, the material precipitate into which they gather, gives them a basic unity. These elements with their ardour and zeal kindle a common Fire. There is a divine Flame, Agni, burning within the flesh, burning brighter and brighter, making the bones whiter and whiter, as it were the purificatory Flame,Pvaka, of which the Vedic Rishis spoke, Master of the House, ghapati, dwelling in the inner heart of the human being, impelling it to rise to purer and larger Truth. But here our modern poet replaces the Heart by the Liver and makes of this organ the central altar of human aspiration and inspiration. We may remember in this connection that the French poet Baudelaire gave a similar high position and functionto the other collateral organ, the spleen. The modern Bengali poet considers that man's consciousness, even his poetic inspiration, is soaked in the secretion of that bilious organ. For man's destiny here upon earth is not delight but grief, not sweetness but gall and bitterness; there is no consolation, no satisfaction here; there is only thirst, no generosity but narrowness, no consideration for others, but a huge sinister egoism.
   The cry of our poet is a cry literally deprifundis, a deep cavernous voice surging, spectral and yet sirenlike, out of the unfathomed underground abysses.

02.12 - The Ideals of Human Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   A new type of imperialism for imperialism it is in essence has been developing in recent times; and it seems it shall have its day and contri bute its share of experimentation towards the goal we are speaking of. I am of course referring to what has been frankly and aptly termed as the Dictatorship of the Proletariate. It is an attempt to cut across all other boundaries and unities of human groupingsracial, national, religious, even familial. It seeks to unify and consolidate one whole stratum of humanity in a single stream-lined steel-frame organisation. At least that was the ideal till yesterday; there seems to be growing here too a movement towards decentralisation. Naturally, even as an organisation that is top-heavy is bound to topple down in the end, likewise an organisation that is bottom-heavy, that is to say, restricts to that portion only of its body all sap and dynamism, is also bound to deteriorate and disintegrate. A tree does not live by its branches and leaves and flowers alone, no doubt, nor does it live by its roots alone.
   A different type of wider grouping is also being experimented upon nowadays, a federal grouping of national units. The nation is taken in this system as the stable indivisible fundamental unit, and what is attempted is a free association of independent nations that choose to be linked together because of identity of interests or mutual sympathy in respect of ideal and culture. The British Empire is a remarkable experiment on this line: it is extremely interesting to see how an old-world Empire is really being liquidated (in spite of a Churchill) and transformed into a commonwealth of free and equal nations. America too has been attempting a Pan-American federation. And in continental Europe, a Western and an Eastern Block of nations seem to be developing, not on ideal lines perhaps at present because of their being based upon the old faulty principle of balance of power hiding behind it a dangerously egoistic and exclusive national consciousness; but that may change when it is seen and experienced that the procedure does not pay, and a more natural and healthier approach may be adopted.

03.04 - The Vision and the Boon, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  A branch of heaven transplant to human soil;
  Nature shall overleap her mortal step;

03.08 - The Standpoint of Indian Art, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Indian art is pre-eminently and par excellence the art of this inner re-formation and revaluation. It has thrown down completely and clearly the rigid scaffolding of the physical vision. We take here a sudden leap, as it were, into another world, and sometimes the feeling is that everything is reversed; it is not exactly that we feel ourselves standing on our heads, but it is, as if, in the Vedic phrase, the foundations were above and all the rest branched out from them downwards. The artist sees with an eye, and constructs upon a plan that conveys the merest excuse of an actual visible world. There are other schools in the East which have also moved very far away from the naturalistic view; yet they have kept, if not the form, at least, the feeling of actuality in their composition. Thus a Chinese, a Japanese, or a Persian masterpiece cannot be said to be "natural" in the sense in which a Tintoretto, or even a Raphael is natural; yet a sense of naturalness persists, though the appearance is not naturalistic. What Indian art gives is not the feeling of actuality or this sense of naturalness, but a feeling of truth, a sense of realityof the deepest reality.
   Other art shows the world of creative imagination, the world reconstructed by the mind's own formative delight; the Indian artist reveals something more than that the faculty through which he seeks to create is more properly termed vision, not imagination; it is the movement of an inner consciousness, a spiritual perception, and not that of a more or less outer sensibility. For the Indian artist is a seer or rishi; what he envisages is the mystery, the truth and beauty of another worlda real, not merely a mental or imaginative world, as real as this material creation that we see and touch; it is indeed more real, for it is the basic world, the world of fundamental truths and realities behind this universe of apparent phenomena. It is this that he contemplates, this I upon which his entire consciousness is concentrated; and all his art consists in giving a glimpse of it, bodying it forth or expressing it in significant forms and symbols.

03.13 - Human Destiny, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This phenomenon is akin and may be linked to the other one also pointed out by anthropologists. A new species, it is said, grows not out of a mature, fully developed, that is to say, specialised type, but out of an earlier, somewhat immature, undeveloped, non-specialised type. The new shoot of the genealogical tree branches out not from the topmost, the latest stem, but from one just below it, an earlier stock. The latest means the most developed, that is to say, the most specialised, and that means fossilisedbarren; nothing new can be produced out of that; it can repeat only what was before so long as it does not die out and perish.
   The aboriginal types that have survived today are, it has also been pointed out, a growth towards decline and deterioration, owing to a stereotyped functioning and a consequent coarsening and hardening of traits, both psychological and physical, a loss of plasticity, loss of the "early innocence."

04.01 - The Birth and Childhood of the Flame, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  As from the soil sprang glory of branch and flower,
  As from the animal's life rose thinking man,

04.08 - An Evolutionary Problem, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   I am afraid the metaphysics here found fault with is not surely false, it is the critics appreciation that is at fault. The metaphysics is perhaps somewhat too physical in its imagery and terminology, that is to say, graphic in the Shavian manner, but the matter seems to us quite all right. What the critic fails to understand is that it is not the conscious idea in the mind that brings about its concrete realisation. What is there at the outset in the evolutionary urge is a life-force, blind, no doubt in the usual sense, but driving towards greater expression and articulation, towards a more and more conscious and clear perception of ends and means. Thus, for example,the root shoots out of the earth into the open air, throws up the stem and the stem grows upward and branches out into tendrils and leaves: all that process means an ardent yearning, a wanting, to rush and plunge into the light and air above: The root or the seed underground does not see the light or air, how then does it move towards that? In fact, it is not necessary to have seen eyes, known what eyes are in order to grow the vision and the organ. We will what we need: yes, but what we need is not always or wholly covered by the conscious minds conception of it. The needs lie deep down and most of them are unconscious; and at a time, at a stage when conscious mind has not yet evolved, it is a secret sense of the life-force, an instinctive orientation to what is useful and needful that infallibly guides the living organism.
   Evolution is purposive: not because it has had always a mentally conscious aim before it, for the mind is a later production, but because the purpose is latent within as an involved force and is gradually unrolled and worked out. It is not as indeterminate and unpredictable as Bergson would have it; it has a veiled determination, a disposition implanted in the very movement by the stress of an apparent unconsciousness seeking conscious formulation. We might also say, reverting to our analogy, that the seed sprouts towards light and air, because it had absorbed light and air in its original formation out of the flower blooming in the open space: the impress of that contact is taken into the very grain of its substance, in its chromosomes and genesit remains there as an indelible memory (although not of the human cerebral variety). It is no wonder therefore that an inner urge towards light gradually leads towards the formation of the instrument for sight. The organism may have no notion of the external eye, but the external eye is only a projection of an inner eye that lies imbedded in the sensory continuum. Behind the physical eye there is a subtle eye, the eye of the eye, as the Upanishad calls it, the secret gaze of an involved consciousness in the apparently unconscious.

05.02 - Satyavan, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The branches haunted by the wild bird's call.
  Awake to Nature, vague as yet to life,

05.03 - Bypaths of Souls Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   There are thus chains linking the typal beings in the world above with their human embodiments in the physical world; an archetype in the series of emanations branches out, as it were, into its commensurables and cognates in human bodies. Hence it is quite natural that many persons, human embodiments, may have so to say one common ancestor in the typal being (that gives their spiritual gotra); they all belong to the same geneological tree. Souls aspiring and ascending to the higher and fuller consciousness, because of their affinity, because together they have to fulfil a special role, serve a particular purpose in the cosmic plan, because of their spiritual consanguinity, call on the same godhead as their Master-soul or Over-soul, the Soul of their souls. Their growth and development are along similar or parallel lines, they are moulded and shaped in the pattern set by the original being. This must not be understood to mean that a soul is bound exclusively to its own family and cannot step out of its geneological system. As I have said in the beginning, souls are not material particles hard and rigid and shut out from each other, they are not obliged to obey the law of impenetrability that two bodies cannot occupy the same place at the same time. They meet, touch, interchange, interpenetrate, even coalesce, although they may not belong to the same family but follow different lines of, evolution. Apart from the fact that in the ultimate reality each is in all and all is in each, not only so, each is all and all is eachthus beings on no account can be kept in water-tight compartmentsapart from this spiritual truth, there is also a more normal and apparent give and take between souls. The phenomenon known as "possession", for example, is a case in point. "Possession", however, need not be always a ghostly possession in the modern sense of the possession by evil spirits, it may be also in a good sense, the sense that the word carried among mediaeval mystics, viz.,spiritual.
   We say commonly souls are immortal. But in an occult sense souls are or may be mortal too. When the Vedantin speaks of laya or the Buddhist of nya, what else is it? It is nothing but the annihilation of the soul, even if it is in the Brahman or some Absolute. But we are not referring to that here. There is a merger of souls, and a dissolution of souls in a somewhat different manner, not on the highest metaphysical heights, but even here below among the growing developing souls embodied upon earth. That is to say, one soul may unite with another and both form one single entity and embodiment.

05.03 - Satyavan and Savitri, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Has flowered at last upon one happy branch?
  Why is thy dwelling in the pathless wood

05.08 - An Age of Revolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Looked at from below with the eye of reason and sense observation straining at it, the thing that appears only as a possibility-at best, as a probabilityis revealed to the eyes of vision surveying from above as a selfevident reality, a reality before which the apparent realities posited by sense and reason become subsidiary and auxiliary, far-off echoes. The facts of sense-perception are indeed the branches spread out below while the root of the tree lies above: in other words, the root-reality is consciousness and all that exist are vibrations of that consciousness extended and concretised. This is the truth which modem science, in its farthest advances, would like to admit but dare not.
   ***

06.01 - The Word of Fate, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Like a bright bird tired of her lonely branch,
  To find her own lord, since to her on earth
  --
  And perches careless on a branch of Time,
  This sovereign glory ends heaven lent to earth,

06.10 - Fatigue and Work, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   You cannot throw off this work and that at random declaring they are not the work fit for you or jump at anything that your fancy favours. Indeed, you cannot give up anything, cast out anything, simply because it is unpleasant or not sufficiently pleasant. The more violently you try to shake off a thing, the more it will try to stick to you. Instead of that, you must know how to let a thing drop of itself, quietly, automatically and definitively. That is the only way of getting rid of an unwanted or an unnecessary thing. Before all, be sincere to yourself: that is to say, try to follow the highest light and aspiration in you each moment, and be faithful to that and that alone. Never allow yourself to be shaken or moved by the likes and dislikes of your mind or heart or body. Do even what goes against the grain of your body or heart or mind, if it is presented to you as the thing to be done; do it as calmly, dispassionately and as perfectly as it is possible for you to do and leave the rest to your higher destiny. If you belong all to your soul, if you are obedient to the Divine alone, then as this consciousness and poise grow clearer and steadier in you, you will find things that are not consonant with it dropping off from you quietly and without any effort or reaction from you, like autumn leaves from branches that supply the sap no more. Your work is changed, your circumstances are changed, your relation with things and per-sons are changed automatically and inevitably in accordance with the need and demand of your soul-consciousness.
   ***

06.30 - Sweet Holy Tears, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The Cross symbolises all the suffering and difficulty, the renunciation and self-denudation that the ascent to the Goal involves. The Calvary of the Christian legend means Ascension and Resurrection is Transformation in our sadhana. The Cross is also symbolic of the Transformed consciousness. It has three branches and represents the triple Divine, the Divine in his three modes of existence. The top branch, the vertical portion above the transverse line, stands for the supreme or transcendent Divine, one who is above manifestation; the middle the transverse or horizontal branch stands for the expanse of the universal consciousness, the Cosmic Divine; and the bottom portion, the vertical line below the transverse stands for the individual Divine immanent or imbedded in the manifestation. You will note that the flower we call transformation has a form similar to the Cross.
   The Mother: Prayers and Meditations, 3 September 1919

06.31 - Identification of Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Consciousness being one and the same everywhere fundamentally, through your own consciousness you can identify yourself with the consciousness that inhabits any other particular formation, any object or being or world. You can, for example, identify your consciousness with that of a tree. Stroll out one evening, find a quiet place in the countryside; choose a big treea mango tree, for instance and go and take your seat at its root, with your back resting or leaning against the trunk. Still yourself, be quiet and wait, see or feel what happens in you. You will feel as if something is rising up within you, from below upward, coursing like a fluid, something that makes you feel at once happy and contented and strong. It is the sap mounting in the tree with which you have come in contact, the vital force, the secret consciousness in the tree that is comforting, restful and health-giving. Well, tired travellers sit under a banyan tree, birds rest upon its spreading branches, other animalsand even beings too (you must have heard of ghosts haunting a tree)take shelter there. It is not merely for the cool or cosy shade, not merely for the physical convenience it gives, but the vital refuge or protection that it extends. Trees are so living, so sentient that they can be almost as friendly as an animal or even a human being. One feels at home, soothed, protected, streng thened under their overspreading foliage.
   I will give you one instance. There was an old mango tree in one of our gardensvery old, leafless and dried up, decrepit and apparently dying. Everybody was for cutting it down and making the place clean and clear for flowers or vegetables. I looked at the tree. Suddenly I saw within the dry bark, at the core, a column of thin and and dim light, a light greenish in colour, mounting up, something very living. I was one with the consciousness of the tree and it told me that I should not allow it to be cut down. The tree is still living and in fairly good health. As a young girl barely in my teens I used to go into the woods not far from Paris, Bois de Fontainebleau: there were huge oak trees centuries old perhaps. And although I knew nothing of meditation then, I used to sit quietly by myself and feel the life around, the living presence of something in each tree that brought to me invariably the sense of health and happiness.

07.04 - The Triple Soul-Forces, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Each branch and twig and leaf in its own place,
  In the embryo tracked the history of forms,

07.44 - Music Indian and European, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   I like this kind of music, with a theme, a single theme moving and developing gradually with variations: countless variations playing out the same constant theme, variations branching out and coming back again to the original basic theme. In Europe too there was something of the kind in its otherwise very different style. Bach had it, Mozart too. In modern times some musicians like Debussy, Raval and the Russian Borodine and a few others have caught something of it. You take a certain number of notes, in a certain relation and upon that scheme you play variations, almost an infinite number of variations. It is marvellous: it takes you deep inside and, if you are ready, gives you the consciousness of the psychic, something that draws you back from the external physical consciousness and links you with something other-where within.
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08.03 - Death in the Forest, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Were piercing it and not the living branch.
  Such agony rends me as the tree must feel
  --
  Then Savitri sat under branches wide,
  Cool, green against the sun, not the hurt tree

08.09 - Spirits in Trees, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, but that was in the story. It was a Christian legend and put in that way to illustrate a lesson. It was to show that if you are wicked you suffer even after death, that it is a virtuous life that saves you from misery. In reality, however, there is no question here of sin and punishment, it is not that spirits get attached to trees in order to be punished. When a person dies, his vital being leaves the body and goes out; but it finds itself in unfamiliar and inhospitable surroundings, especially if there is no one, none among his friends and relatives upon earth, to help him in the proper way, to guide or protect him in the new country where there are hostile beings to harm. In such a situation a tree is often a very ready shelter, a big old tree with friendly branches spread out, possessing a strong vitality. It is the sap, the elements of water coursing in the substance of the tree, that is to say, the support of its life-power, to which the vital being of the dead man is drawn as its physical support and shelter. There is no question of forced imprisonment and a desire to be freed.
   Are they not harmful, these spirits?

09.01 - Towards the Black Void, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Cling round them and in troubled branches knew
  Uncertain treadings of a faint-foot wind:

10.02 - The Gospel of Death and Vanity of the Ideal, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  From moonlit branches in the throbbing woods,
  Tempting our angry search and passionate pain.

10.04 - Lord of Time, #Writings In Bengali and Sanskrit, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Thousands of crazy branches, green clothes
  Dancing at Taruraji Alaek-Utsabe 6

1.00d - Introduction, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  And we assert that there exists a future far more marvelous than all the electronic paradises of the mind: man is not the end, any more than the archaeopteryx was, at the height of the reptiles how could anything possibly be the culmination of the great evolutionary wave? We see it clearly in ourselves: We seem to invent ever more marvelous machines, ceaselessly expand the limits of the human, even progress towards Jupiter and Venus. But that is only a seeming, increasingly deceptive and oppressive, and we do not expand anything: we merely send to the other end of the cosmos a pitiful little being who does not even know how to take care of his own kind, or whether his caves harbor a dragon or a mewling baby. We do not progress; we inordinately inflate an enormous mental balloon, which may well explode in our face. We have not improved man; we have merely colosalized him. And it could not have been otherwise. The fault does not lie in some deficiency of our virtues or intellectual capacities, for pushed to their extreme these could only generate supersaints or supermachines monsters. A saintly reptile in its hole would no more make an evolutionary summit than a saintly monk would. Or else, let us forget everything. The truth is, the summit of man or the summit of anything at all does not lie in perfecting to a higher degree the type under consideration; it lies in a something else that is not of the same type and that he aspires to become. Such is the evolutionary law. Man is not the end; man is a transitional being, said Sri Aurobindo long ago. He is heading toward supermanhood as inevitably as the minutest twig of the highest branch of the mango tree is contained in its seed. Hence, our sole true occupation, our sole problem, the sole question ever to be solved from age to age, the one that is now tearing our great earthly ship apart limb from painful limb is how to make this transition.
  Nietzsche said it also. But his superman was only a colossalization of man; we saw what he did as he tramped over Europe. That was not an evolutionary progress, only a return to the old barbarism of the blond or brunet brute of human egoism. We do not need a super-man, but something else, which is already murmuring in the heart of man and is as different from man as Bach's cantatas are from the first grunts of the hominid. And, truly, Bach's cantatas sound poor when our inner ear begins to open up to the harmonies of the future.

1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  The activity of the second Logos is carried on under the cosmic Law of Attraction. The Law of Economy has for one of its branches a subsidiary Law of marked development called the Law of Repulsion. The cosmic Laws of Attraction and Economy are therefore the raison d'tre (viewed from one angle) of the eternal repulsion that goes on as Spirit seeks ever to liberate itself from form. The matter aspect always follows the line of least resistance, and repulses all tendency to group formation, while Spirit, governed by the Law of Attraction, seeks ever to separate itself from matter by the method of attracting an ever more adequate type of matter in the process of distinguishing the real from the unreal, and passing from one illusion to another until the resources of matter are fully utilised.
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  2. Momentum, resulting therefore in repulsion, was produced by the rotary movement. We have referred to the Law of Repulsion as one of the subsidiary branches of the great Law of Economy, which governs matter. Repulsion is brought about by rotary action, and is the basis of that separation which prevents the contact of any atom with any other atom, which keeps the planets at fixed points in space and separated stably from each other; which keeps them at a certain distance from their systemic centre, and which likewise keeps the planes and subplanes from losing their material identity. Here we can see the beginning of that age-long duel between Spirit and matter, which is characteristic of manifestation, one aspect working under the Law of Attraction, and the other governed by the Law of Repulsion. From aeon to aeon the conflict goes on, with matter becoming less potent. Gradually (so gradually as to seem negated when viewed from the physical plane) the attractive power of Spirit is weakening the resistance of matter till, at the close of the greater solar cycles, destruction (as it is called) will ensue, and the Law of Repulsion be overcome by the Law of Attraction. It is a destruction of form and not of matter itself, for matter is indestructible. This can be seen even now in the microcosmic life, and is the cause of the disintegration of form, which holds itself as a separated unit by the very method of repulsing all other forms. It can be seen working out gradually and inappreciably in connection with the Moon, which no longer is repulsive to the earth, and is giving of her very substance to this planet. H. P. B. hints at this in The Secret Doctrine, and I have here suggested the law under which this is so. [lxxii]70, [lxxiii]71
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1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  O Emperor of Austria! He Who is the Dayspring of God's Light dwelt in the prison of Akka at the time when thou didst set forth to visit the Aqsa Mosque. Thou passed Him by, and inquired not about Him by Whom every house is exalted and every lofty gate unlocked. We, verily, made it a place whereunto the world should turn, that they might remember Me, and yet thou hast rejected Him Who is the Object of this remembrance, when He appeared with the Kingdom of God, thy Lord and the Lord of the worlds. We have been with thee at all times, and found thee clinging unto the branch and heedless of the Root. Thy Lord, verily, is a witness unto what I say. We grieved to see thee circle round Our Name, whilst unaware of Us, though We were before thy face. Open thine eyes, that thou mayest behold this glorious Vision, and recognize Him Whom thou invokest in the daytime and in the night season, and gaze on the Light that shineth above this luminous Horizon.
  86
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  Hearken ye, O Rulers of America and the Presidents of the Republics therein, unto that which the Dove is warbling on the branch of Eternity: "There is none other God but Me, the Ever-Abiding, the Forgiving, the All-Bountiful." Adorn ye the temple of dominion with the ornament of justice and of the fear of God, and its head with the crown of the remembrance of your Lord, the Creator of the heavens.
  Thus counselleth you He Who is the Dayspring of Names, as bidden by Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. The Promised One hath appeared in this glorified Station, whereat all beings, both seen and unseen, have rejoiced. Take ye advantage of the Day of God. Verily, to meet Him is better for you than all that whereon the sun shineth, could ye but know it. O concourse of rulers! Give ear unto that which hath been raised from the Dayspring of Grandeur: "Verily, there is none other God but Me, the Lord of Utterance, the All-Knowing." Bind ye the broken with the hands of justice, and crush the oppressor who flourisheth with the rod of the commandments of your Lord, the Ordainer, the All-Wise.
  --
  When the ocean of My presence hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended, turn your faces toward Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Ancient Root.
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  O people of the world! When the Mystic Dove will have winged its flight from its Sanctuary of Praise and sought its far-off goal, its hidden habitation, refer ye whatsoever ye understand not in the Book to Him Who hath branched from this mighty Stock.
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1.01 - About the Elements, #Initiation Into Hermetics, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
  The analysis of the elements will also be discussed and the great practical value of them underlined, so that every scientist, whether he be a chemist, a physician, a magnetizer, an occultist, a magician, a mystic, a quabbalist or a yogi, etc., can derive his practical benefit from it. Should I succeed in teaching the reader so far that he is able to deal with the subject in the proper way and to find the practical key to the branch of knowledge most suitable for him, I will be glad to see that the purpose of my book has been fulfiled.

1.01 - A NOTE ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  other branches of the Tree of Life. This would explain the fact
  that "evolving Life," from the end of the Tertiary era, has been

1.01 - BOOK THE FIRST, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Which mud on their dishonour'd branches bear.
  At length the world was all restor'd to view;
  --
  Her alter'd visage, and her branching head;
  And starting, from her self she wou'd have fled.

1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  I offered him, he had so many _intra_ ones. This ducking was the very thing he needed. Then I began to pity myself, and I saw that it would be a greater charity to bestow on me a flannel shirt than a whole slop-shop on him. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. It is the pious slave-breeder devoting the proceeds of every tenth slave to buy a Sundays liberty for the rest. Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there? You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; maybe you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it. Society recovers only a tenth part of the property then. Is this owing to the generosity of him in whose possession it is found, or to the remissness of the officers of justice?
  Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it. A robust poor man, one sunny day here in Concord, praised a fellow-townsman to me, because, as he said, he was kind to the poor; meaning himself. The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. I once heard a reverend lecturer on England, a man of learning and intelligence, after enumerating her scientific, literary, and political worthies, Shakespeare, Bacon, Cromwell, Milton, Newton, and others, speak next of her Christian heroes, whom, as if his profession required it of him, he elevated to a place far above all the rest, as the greatest of the great. They were Penn, Howard, and Mrs. Fry. Every one must feel the falsehood and cant of this. The last were not Englands best men and women; only, perhaps, her best philanthropists.

1.01 - Maitreya inquires of his teacher (Parashara), #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  Maitreya[10], having saluted him reverentially, thus addressed Parāśara, the excellent sage, the grandson of Vaśiṣṭha, who was versed in traditional history, and the Purāṇas; who was acquainted with the Vedas, and the branches of science dependent upon them; and skilled in law and philosophy; and who had performed the morning rites of devotion.
  Maitreya said, Master! I have been instructed by you in the whole of the Vedas, and in the institutes of law and of sacred science: through your favour, other men, even though they be my foes, cannot accuse me of having been remiss in the acquirement of knowledge. I am now desirous, oh thou who art profound in piety! to hear from thee, how this world was, and how in future it will be? what is its substance, oh Brahman, and whence proceeded animate and inanimate things? into what has it been resolved, and into what will its dissolution again occur? how were the elements manifested? whence proceeded the gods and other beings? what are the situation and extent of the oceans and the mountains, the earth, the sun, and the planets? what are the families of the gods and others, the Menus, the periods called Manvantaras, those termed Kalpas, and their subdivisions, and the four ages: the events that happen at the close of a Kalpa, and the terminations of the several ages[11]: the histories, oh great Muni, of the gods, the sages, and kings; and how the Vedas were divided into branches (or schools), after they had been arranged by Vyāsa: the duties of the Brahmans, and the other tribes, as well as of those who pass through the different orders of life? All these things I wish to hear from you, grandson of Vaśiṣṭha. Incline thy thoughts benevolently towards me, that I may, through thy favour, be informed of all I desire to know. Parāśara replied, Well inquired, pious Maitreya. You recall to my recollection that which was of old narrated by my father's father, Vaśiṣṭha. I had heard that my father had been devoured by a Rākṣas employed by Visvāmitra: violent anger seized me, and I commenced a sacrifice for the destruction of the Rākṣasas: hundreds of them were reduced to ashes by the rite, when, as they were about to be entirely extirpated, my grandfather Vaśiṣṭha thus spake to me: Enough, my child; let thy wrath be appeased: the Rākṣasas are not culpable: thy father's death was the work of destiny. Anger is the passion of fools; it becometh not a wise man. By whom, it may be asked, is any one killed? Every man reaps the consequences of his own acts. Anger, my son, is the destruction of all that man obtains by arduous exertions, of fame, and of devout austerities; and prevents the attainment of heaven or of emancipation. The chief sages always shun wrath: he not thou, my child, subject to its influence. Let no more of these unoffending spirits of darkness be consumed. Mercy is the might of the righteous[12].
  Being thus admonished by my venerable grandsire, I immediately desisted from the rite, in obedience to his injunctions, and Vaśiṣṭha, the most excellent of sages, was content with me. Then arrived Pulastya, the son of Brahmā[13], who was received by my grandfather with the customary marks of respect. The illustrious brother of Pulaha said to me; Since, in the violence of animosity, you have listened to the words of your progenitor, and have exercised clemency, therefore you shall become learned in every science: since you have forborne, even though incensed, to destroy my posterity, I will bestow upon you another boon, and, you shall become the author of a summary of the Purāṇas[14]; you shall know the true nature of the deities, as it really is; and, whether engaged in religious rites, or abstaining from their performance[15], your understanding, through my favour, shall be perfect, and exempt from). doubts. Then my grandsire Vaśiṣṭha added; Whatever has been said to thee by Pulastya, shall assuredly come to pass.

1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  There is of course a branch of astronomy which deals with
  what may be called cosmic meteorology: the study of galaxies
  --
  example by Chandrasekhar, but this is a very young branch of
  astronomy, younger than meteorology itself, and is somethingNewtonian and Bergsonian Time
  --
  of potential. The engineering of the body is a branch of power-­
  engineering. Even today, this is the predominating point of view

1.01 - On Love, #unset, #Anonymous, #Various
  Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
  So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Though GOD is everywhere present, yet He is only present to thee in the deepest and most central part of thy soul. The natural senses cannot possess God or unite thee to Him; nay, thy inward faculties of understanding, will and memory can only reach after God, but cannot be the place of his habitation in thee. But there is a root or depth of thee from whence all these faculties come forth, as lines from a centre, or as branches from the body of the tree. This depth is called the centre, the fund or bottom of the soul. This depth is the unity, the eternity I had almost said the infinityof thy soul; for it is so infinite that nothing can satisfy it or give it rest but the infinity of God.
  William Law

1.01 - The First Steps, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
  The result of this branch of Yoga is to make men live long; health is the chief idea, the one goal of the Hatha-Yogi. He is determined not to fall sick, and he never does. He lives long; a hundred years is nothing to him; he is quite young and fresh when he is 150, without one hair turned grey. But that is all. A banyan tree lives sometimes 5000 years, but it is a banyan tree and nothing more. So, if a man lives long, he is only a healthy animal. One or two ordinary lessons of the Hatha-Yogis are very useful. For instance, some of you will find it a good thing for headaches to drink cold water through the nose as soon as you get up in the morning; the whole day your brain will be nice and cool, and you will never catch cold. It is very easy to do; put your nose into the water, draw it up through the nostrils and make a pump action in the throat.
  After one has learned to have a firm erect seat, one has to perform, according to certain schools, a practice called the purifying of the nerves. This part has been rejected by some as not belonging to Raja-Yoga, but as so great an authority as the commentator Shankarchrya advises it, I think fit that it should be mentioned, and I will quote his own directions from his commentary on the Shvetshvatara Upanishad: "The mind whose dross has been cleared away by Pranayama, becomes fixed in Brahman; therefore Pranayama is declared. First the nerves are to be purified, then comes the power to practice Pranayama. Stopping the right nostril with the thumb, through the left nostril fill in air, according to capacity; then, without any interval, throw the air out through the right nostril, closing the left one. Again inhaling through the right nostril eject through the left, according to capacity; practicing this three or five times at four hours of the day, before dawn, during midday, in the evening, and at midnight, in fifteen days or a month purity of the nerves is attained; then begins Pranayama."

1.01 - The King of the Wood, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  stormy sky, the sighing of the wind in the branches, the rustle of
  the withered leaves under foot, the lapping of the cold water on the
  --
  which no branch might be broken. Only a runaway slave was allowed to
  break off, if he could, one of its boughs. Success in the attempt
  --
  fateful branch was that Golden Bough which, at the Sibyl's bidding,
  Aeneas plucked before he essayed the perilous journey to the world

1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  BY THE wayside, many-coloured flowers delight the eye, red berries gleam on small trees with knotty branches, and in the distance a brilliant sun shines gold upon the ripe corn.
  A young traveller is walking briskly along, happily breathing in the pure morning air; he seems joyful, without a care for the future. The way he is following comes to a cross-roads, where innumerable paths branch off in all directions.
  Everywhere the young man can see criss-crossing footprints. The sun shines ever bright in the sky; the birds are singing in the trees; the day promises to be very beautiful.

1.01 - THE STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  fathomable past, and whose branches rise up somewhere to a
  future that, at first sight, has no limit. In tliis new perspective the

1.01 - To Watanabe Sukefusa, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
  There is also the story of a priest who was passing an old shrine late one night and saw crowds of tall, strange-looking people within the precincts. Their heads were wrapped in yellow silk and they were sweeping and cleaning the approaches to the shrine with sacred branches of the sakaki tree.
  They kept working through the night, muttering words like, "Ahh! How disgusting," and "Oh! How unclean." Approaching them, the priest said, "Why are you cleaning and purifying this place with such great care?"

10.23 - Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Une grande concentration s' est empare de moi et je me suis aperue que je m'identifiais avec une fleur de cerisier; puis travers cette fleur avec toutes les fleurs de cerisier; puis descendant plus profondment dans la conscience, en suivant un courant de force bleute, je devins tout coup le cerisier lui-mme, dressant vers le ciel, comme autant de bras, ses innombrables branches charges de leur offrande fleurie. J' entendis alors distinctement la phrase suivante:
   "Ainsi tu t' es unit l' me des cerisiers et tu as pu de la sorte constater que c' est le Divin qui fait au ciel l' offrande de cette prire de fleurs." Lorsque je l'eus crit, toutseffaa; mais maintenant le sang du cerisier coule dans mes veines, et avec lui une paix et une force incomparables; quelle diffrence y a-t-il entre le corps humain et le corps d'un arbre? Aucune vraiment, et la conscience qui les anime est bien identiquement la mme.18
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   A deep concentration seized on me, and I perceived that I was identifying myself with a single cherry-blossom, then through it with all cherry-blossoms, and as I descended deeper in the consciousness, following a stream of bluish force, I became suddenly the cherry-tree itself, stretching towards the sky like so many arms its innumerable branches laden with their sacrifice of flowers. Then I heard distinctly this sentence:
   "Thus hast thou made thyself one with the soul of cherry-trees and so thou canst take note that it is the Divine who makes the offering of this flower-prayer to heaven."

1.02.4.2 - Action and the Divine Will, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
  our crooked branchings towards the straight path which will be
  the final result of their toil and seeking. The emergence of this

10.24 - Savitri, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   A branch of heaven transplant to human soil;
   Nature shall overleap her mortal step;

10.27 - Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   When we speak of the dimensions of consciousness, it means these different levels or status of ascending expression. They also form according to the mode of expression each one a world of its own. We may compare the mounting consciousness to a growing tree, it is the same sap-substance that appears at the outset as a seed, then as the seed opens out and develops it appears or throws up a stem or trunk and as it proceeds it throws up branches and higher up leaves and then flowers and fruit. Apparently however different and diverse these formulations, they are but expressions of the same sap-substance in the original seed. Even so an original seed-consciousness is the basis and essential reality of all the forms in the material universe.
   It must now be apparent that consciousness is not merely consciousness, simple awareness, it is also power or energy. The Vedic word is cit-tapas, consciousness-energy. It is one indivisible, entity: consciousness is energy. It is not however in the sense as when we say knowledge is power: It does not mean consciousness has power or gives power, but consciousness is power. The nearer analogy would be with light-energy. Light, we know today, thanks to modern science, does not merely illumine, it energises, activises, moves things, that is to say, matter and material objects. The ray of light, we know now, acts even more effectively than the surgeon's knife. The inherent quality of light is energy. This energy has been discovered to be electro-magnetic energy, a photon (unit-light or light-unit) is, as we have said, an electro-magnetic quantum.

1.02 - BOOK THE SECOND, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Her arms shot out, and branching into boughs.
  And now their legs, and breasts, and bodies stood

1.02 - IN THE COMPANY OF DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  The branch of a young tree.
  "Where are You, Brother Kanai?" he cried; But "Kanai" scarcely could he utter; "Ka" was as much as he could say.

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  your company is failing, you might fire half your employees, branch out into a new product line, or cut the
  salaries of your upper management. Each of these approaches all designed for the same purpose are
  --
  meaning, in the kingdom of heaven, on the mountaintop, crucified on the branches of the world-tree is the
  individual who voluntarily carves out the space between nature and culture. The interpretation of words in
  --
  parents. She is the branches that claw at the night traveler, in the depths of the forest. She is the terrible
  force that motivates the commission of atrocity planned rape and painful slaughter during the waging of

1.02 - Substance Is Eternal, #Of The Nature Of Things, #Lucretius, #Poetry
  And from the turf would leap a branching tree-
  Wonders unheard of; for, by Nature, each
  --
  Fragments of woodland and whole branching trees;
  Nor can the solid bridges bide the shock

1.02 - The Pit, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Modern conceptions of mathematics, chemistry, and physics are sheer paradox to the" plain man" who thinks of matter, for example, as something that he can knock up against. There appears to be no doubt nowadays that the ultimate nature of Science in any of its branches will be purely abstract, almost of a
  Qabalistic character one might say, even though it may never be officially denominated the Qabalah. It is natural and proper to represent the Cosmos or any part of it, or its

1.02 - The Refusal of the Call, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
  Now was her strength all gone, and, pale with fear and utterly overcome by the toil of her swift flight, seeing the waters of her fa ther's river near, she cried: 'O father, help! If your waters hold di vinity, change and destroy this beauty by which I pleased o'er well.' Scarce had she thus prayed when a down-dragging numb ness seized her limbs, and her soft sides were begirt with thin bark. Her hair was changed to leaves, her arms to branches. Her feet, but now so swift, grew fast in sluggish roots, and her head was now but a tree's top. Her gleaming beauty alone remained."
  Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 504-553 (translation by Frank Justus Miller, the

10.35 - The Moral and the Spiritual, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The world is a gradation of developing consciousness, of growing states or status of being. There is a higher and lower level in point of the measure of consciousness but that involves no moral judgement: the moral judgement is man's; it is man's, one might almost say, idiosyncrasy, that is to say, a notion that is a prop to help him mount the ladder. Though it might be necessary at a certain stage, in certain circumstances, it is not a universal or ineluctable law, not even in his personal domain. The growing consciousness is like the growing tree rising upward first into a trunk, then spreading out into branches, into twigs and tendrils, then in flowers and finally, in fruits. These are mounting grades of growth, but the growth above is not superior to the growth below. It is a one unified whole and each portion has its own absolute value, beauty and utility.
   The modern mind has forgotten this lesson. It is terribly moral I say moral, not immoral Its immorality has found play, has almost been cultured so that its moral sense may remain intact. Its dislike and even abhorrence for things it chooses to call immoral is the ransom it pays for rescuing its sense of morality, and paradoxically this very abhorrence for unholy things has pushed it all the more into their grasp. This is the characteristic turn or twist of the modern consciousness, the perversity unknown to the ancient 'sinners'. Perversity means, you yield, not only yield, but take delight in the thing you dislike, detest or abhor even. In the vein of St. Augustine who said "I believe because it is impossible", 1 the modern consciousness says: I love because I hate.

1.03 - BOOK THE THIRD, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  The branching horns, and visage not his own;
  To shun his once lov'd dogs, to bound away,
  --
  He saw his branching horns and alter'd look.
  Wretched Actaeon! in a doleful tone

1.03 - Concerning the Archetypes, with Special Reference to the Anima Concept, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  archetypal forms, they branch out into such far-reaching rami-
  fications in the history of symbols that one comes to the con-

1.03 - Hymns of Gritsamada, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
    4. Pure, the Priest of the annunciation is born along with the pure will. The man who knows the laws of his workings that are steadfast for ever, climbs them one by one like branches.
    5. The milch-cows come to and cleave to the hue of Light17 of this Priest of the lustration, the Sisters who have gone once and again to that Supreme over the three.18

1.03 - Invocation of Tara, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  Seven branch prayer, offerings, and praise.
  - 66 -
  --
   SEVEN branch PRAYER. The seven branches are as
  follows.
  --
  through the above six branches, we dedicate it to
  attaining awakening for the benefit of all beings. This
  --
   SEVEN branch PRAYER. This second Seven branch
  Prayer is in a slightly different context from the first
  --
  Tara. The second Seven branch Prayer refers to the
  Three Jewels in general.

1.03 - Of some imperfections which some of these souls are apt to have, with respect to the second capital sin, which is avarice, in the spiritual sense, #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
  formed from a branch33 that had been blessed, fastened with a pin twisted round it;
  he had never ceased using it, and he always carried it about with him until I took it

1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  The will is free and we are at liberty to identify our being either exclusively with our selfness and its interests, regarded as independent of indwelling Spirit and transcendent Godhead (in which case we shall be passively damned or actively fiendish), or exclusively with the divine within us and without (in which case we shall be saints), or finally with self at one moment or in one context and with spiritual not-self at other moments and in other contexts (in which case we shall be average citizens, too theocentric to be wholly lost, and too egocentric to achieve enlightenment and a total deliverance). Since human craving can never be satisfied except by the unitive knowledge of God and since the mind-body is capable of an enormous variety of experiences, we are free to identify ourselves with an almost infinite number of possible objectswith the pleasures of gluttony, for example, or intemperance, or sensuality; with money, power or fame; with our family, regarded as a possession or actually an extension and projection of our own selfness; with our goods and chattels, our hobbies, our collections; with our artistic or scientific talents; with some favourite branch of knowledge, some fascinating special subject; with our professions, our political parties, our churches; with our pains and illnesses; with our memories of success or misfortune, our hopes, fears and schemes for the future; and finally with the eternal Reality within which and by which all the rest has its being. And we are free, of course, to identify ourselves with more than one of these things simultaneously or in succession. Hence the quite astonishingly improbable combination of traits making up a complex personality. Thus a man can be at once the craftiest of politicians and the dupe of his own verbiage, can have a passion for brandy and money, and an equal passion for the poetry of George Meredith and under-age girls and his mother, for horse-racing and detective stories and the good of his country the whole accompanied by a sneaking fear of hell-fire, a hatred of Spinoza and an unblemished record for Sunday church-going. A person born with one kind of psycho-physical constitution will be tempted to identify himself with one set of interests and passions, while a person with another kind of temperament will be tempted to make very different identifications. But these temptations (though extremely powerful, if the constitutional bias is strongly marked) do not have to be succumbed to; people can and do resist them, can and do refuse to identify themselves with what it would be all too easy and natural for them to be; can and do become better and quite other than their own selves. In this context the following brief article on How Men Behave in Crisis (published in a recent issue of Harpers Magazine) is highly significant. A young psychiatrist, who went as a medical observer on five combat missions of the Eighth Air Force in England says that in times of great stress and danger men are likely to react quite uniformly, even though under normal circumstances, they differ widely in personality. He went on one mission, during which the B-17 plane and crew were so severely damaged that survival seemed impossible. He had already studied the on the ground personalities of the crew and had found that they represented a great diversity of human types. Of their behaviour in crisis he reported:
  Their reactions were remarkably alike. During the violent combat and in the acute emergencies that arose during it, they were all quietly precise on the interphone and decisive in action. The tail gunner, right waist gunner and navigator were severely wounded early in the fight, but all three kept at their duties efficiently and without cessation. The burden of emergency work fell on the pilot, engineer and ball turret gunner, and all functioned with rapidity, skilful effectiveness and no lost motion. The burden of the decisions, during, but particularly after the combat, rested essentially on the pilot and, in secondary details, on the co-pilot and bombar ther. The decisions, arrived at with care and speed, were unquestioned once they were made, and proved excellent. In the period when disaster was momentarily expected, the alternative plans of action were made clearly and with no thought other than the safety of the entire crew. All at this point were quiet, unobtrusively cheerful and ready for anything. There was at no time paralysis, panic, unclear thinking, faulty or confused judgment, or self-seeking in any one of them.

1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  the first of these branches of magic the term Homoeopathic is
  perhaps preferable, for the alternative term Imitative or Mimetic
  --
  contact. But in practice the two branches are often combined; or, to
  be more exact, while homoeopathic or imitative magic may be
  --
  ignorant and dull-witted people everywhere. Both branches of magic,
  the homoeopathic and the contagious, may conveniently be
  --
  It may be convenient to tabulate as follows the branches of
  magic according to the laws of thought which underlie them:
  --
  I will now illustrate these two great branches of sympathetic
  magic by examples, beginning with homoeopathic magic.
  --
  long narrow structure of branches is set up to imitate the chrysalis
  case of the grub. In this structure a number of men, who have the
  --
  From such a tree he cuts a stout branch and makes of it the
  principal post in his fish-trap; for he believes that, just as the
  tree lured many birds to its fruit, so the branch cut from that tree
  will lure many fish to the trap.
  --
  This is a resinous gum exuded by a red insect on the young branches
  of trees, to which the little creatures have to be attached by hand.
  --
  covered as speedily as possible with palm branches, and becomes
  sacred. No one may thenceforth cross that spot till the ship comes
  --
  There is a fruitful branch of homoeopathic magic which works by
  means of the dead; for just as the dead can neither see nor hear nor
  --
  THUS far we have been considering chiefly that branch of sympathetic
  magic which may be called homoeopathic or imitative. Its leading
  --
  words, that an effect resembles its cause. The other great branch of
  sympathetic magic, which I have called Contagious Magic, proceeds
  --
  infant. They put it in a pot with ashes, and set it in the branches
  of a tree, that it may keep a watchful eye on the fortunes of its

1.03 - The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The, #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
    First one and then another, till the branch
    Unto the earth surrenders all its spoils;

1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  the other branches surrounding us on the tree of life?
  This overwhelmingly important question is one to which I
  --
  become operative along each zoological branch, but at very differ-
  ent ages of the earth; so far as we are able to judge, the phenome-
  --
  Thus at the outset there is a cleavage in the "optimist" branch
  of Mankind. On the one hand there are those who see our true

1.03 - The Phenomenon of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  biology: it branches off in a different but allied direction
  from physics and confines itself to the median, studying the

1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Until the mind itself takes on the Image of the Tree and we are able to go mentally from branch to branch, Cor- respondence to Correspondence, visualizing the process and thus making it a Living Tree, do we find that the Light of
  Truth dawns upon us, and we have, as it were, succeeded

1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
  Then one day he suddenly grabbed the master and hurried him to a secluded spot at the rear of the temple. He seated the master on the ground, spread out his prostration cloth before him, and performed three bows. 'I appeal to your great mercy and compassion,' he said. 'Please teach me the principles of Zen. Guide me to sudden enlightenment.' The master ignored him, enraging the monk, who flew into a fit of passion, sprang to his feet and, eyes red with anger, broke off a large branch from a nearby tree. Brandishing it, he stood in front of the master glaring scornfully at him. 'Priest!' he cried. 'If you don't tell me what you know, I am going to club you to death, cast your body down the cliff, and leave this place for good.' 'If you want to beat me to death, go ahead,' replied the master. 'I'm not going to teach you any Zen.' What a pity. This monk was obviously gifted with special capacity and spiritual strength. He had what it takes to penetrate the truth and perish into the great death. But notice what great caution and infinite care these ancient teachers exercised when leading students to self-awakening.
  "Zen Master Tao-wu responded to a monk with the words, 'I won't say living. I won't say dead.'

1.03 - Yama and Niyama, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  9:The only difficult question is that of continence, which is complicated by many considerations, such as that of energy; but everybody's mind is hopelessly muddled on this subject, which some people confuse with erotology, and others with sociology. There will be no clear thinking on this matter until it is understood as being solely a branch of athletics.
  10:We may then dismiss Yama and Niyama with this advice: let the student decide for himself what form of life, what moral code, will least tend to excite his mind; but once he has formulated it, let him stick to it, avoiding opportunism; and let him be very careful to take no credit for what he does or refrains from doing - it is a purely practical code, of no value in itself.

1.04 - BOOK THE FOURTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Their leafs, their branches, and their apples, gold.
  Then Perseus the gigantick prince addrest,

1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  the general principles of sympathetic magic in its two branches, to
  which we have given the names of Homoeopathic and Contagious

1.04 - Of other imperfections which these beginners are apt to have with respect to the third sin, which is luxury., #Dark Night of the Soul, #Saint John of the Cross, #Christianity
  33 [No doubt a branch of palm, olive or rosemary, blessed in church on Palm Sunday, like the English palm crosses of to-day. 'Palm Sunday' is in Spanish Domingo de ramos: ' branch Sunday.']
  2. The first cause from which they often proceed is the pleasure which human nature takes in spiritual things. For when the spirit and the sense are pleased, every part of a man is moved by that pleasure34 to delight according to its proportion and nature. For then the spirit, which is the higher part, is moved to pleasure 35 and delight in God; and the sensual nature, which is the lower part, is moved to pleasure and delight of the senses, because it cannot possess and lay hold upon aught else, and it therefore lays hold upon that which comes nearest to itself, which is the impure and sensual. Thus it comes to pass that the soul is in deep prayer with God according to the spirit, and, on the other hand, according to sense it is passively conscious, not without great displeasure, of rebellions and motions and acts of the senses, which often happens in Communion, for when the soul receives joy and comfort in this act of love, because this Lord bestows it (since it is to that end that He gives Himself), the sensual nature takes that which is its own likewise, as we have said, after its manner. Now as, after all, these two parts are combined in one individual, they ordinarily both participate in that which one of them receives, each after its manner; for, as the philosopher says, everything that is received is in the recipient after the manner of the same recipient. And thus, in these beginnings, and even when the soul has made some progress, its sensual part, being imperfect, oftentimes receives the Spirit of God with the same imperfection. Now when this sensual part is renewed by the purgation of the dark night which we shall describe, it no longer has these weaknesses; for it is no longer this part that receives aught, but rather it is itself received into the Spirit. And thus it then has everything after the manner of the Spirit.

1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  I saw an inexperienced disciple who in the presence of certain people boasted of the achievements of his teacher, thinking to win glory for himself from anothers harvest, but he only earned for himself dishonour, for everybody asked him: But how could a good tree grow such a barren branch?
  It is not when we courageously endure the derision of our father that we are judged patient, but when we endure it from all manner of men. For we bear with our father both out of respect and as a duty to him.

1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
  Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took,
  --
  and verbally-sophisticated individual is therefore always in danger of sawing off the branch on which he or
  she sits.
  --
  which leaps impatiently and lasciviously from branch to branch, sometimes dismal like a cloud
  overcharged with question marks and often mortally sick of its will. Paralysis of the will: where today
  --
  material) world of chaos, with branches reaching to the sky (to heaven, to the realm of the ancestral
  spirits). According to the adepts of Hatha Yoga:
  --
  The tree is to Christ, therefore, as Christ is to the individual (I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that
  abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. John

1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  There are several other major activities the Mother started during this time and even participated in. A few of them have taken a premier place in our life and gained world-wide recognition. Though I did not hear the Mother talking about them to Sri Aurobindo as much as the foregoing activities, I saw them growing up under her aegis slowly, and by her power. I might just as well give a short description of some of them by way of illustration of her multitudinous activities, her intensity, drive, boldness and creative genius. We shall see how some institutions have developed from a nascent stage into banyan trees spreading their branches far and wide, and are inspiring countries with a new vision.
  The two major activities that she took up during this period were the Ashram School and Physical Education which together form the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Both of them, like the others, were born from tiny chromosomes and out of a compelling necessity, for the Japanese aggression had driven the children of the disciples in affected areas to seek shelter in the protecting arms of the Mother. She had now to devote much of her crowded time to the children who needed a special treatment, since they had not come for Yoga.

1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Wisdom, of which the ten Sephiros are considered to be the main Paths or branches whose correspondences are by far the most important, and the twenty-two letters the lesser
  Paths connecting the Sephiros, harmonizing and equili- brizing the concepts attached to the various numbers. In dealing with these remaining twenty-two Paths, the same procedure will be followed as with the Sephiros, going over each item, giving several correspondences, paying particular attention to the shape and meaning of the letters, together

1.04 - The Qabalah The Best Training for Memory, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  For a start, of course, you should put down the words that are bound to come in your way in any case: numbers like 11, 13, 31, 37, and their multiples; the names of God and the principal angels; the planetary and geomantic names; and your own private and particular name with its branches. After that, let your work on the Astral Plane guide you. When investigating the name and other words communicated to you by such beings as you meet there, or invoke, many more will come up in their proper connections. Very soon you will have quite a nice little Sepher Sephiroth of your very own. Remember to aim, above all things, at coherence.
  It is excellent practice, but the way, to do some mental arithmetic on your walks; acquire the habit of adding up any names that you have come across in your morning's reading. Nietzsche has well observed that the best thoughts come by walking; and it has happened to me, more than once or twice, that really important correspondences have come, as by a flashlight, when I was padding the old hoof.

1.04 - To the Priest of Rytan-ji, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
  Seiken-ji was a large Myshin-ji temple in Okitsu on the coast west of Hara; Shin-ji was a small branch temple under its jurisdiction.
  The Chronological Biography entry for 1742 refers to this meeting without adding much to what is already known: "During the summer the master acceded to a request from Rytan-ji and went to

1.057 - The Four Manifestations of Ignorance, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  The demands that follow from this ignorance have already been mentioned raga, dvesha, abhinivesha, etc. Because of the fact that the mind is completely involved, root and branch, in this mix-up of values, it is unable to concentrate itself on any given point. How is it possible for the mind to meditate? It is simply out of the question. It is a slave of slaves dasa se dasaha and such a slave cannot have any independence of its own. Where there is no independence, how can there be deliberate action? The question of the practice of yoga does not arise. It is gone, if this is to be the case.
  But this is precisely what has happened. All our so-called endeavours are backed up by a misconception. Because of the misconception, there is erroneous movement of the mind in its activities. Therefore, the expected results do not follow. It does not matter if we sit for meditation for hours together nothing will happen. No fruit is going to drop from the trees, because this meditation may be like the meditation of the crane for catching fish. That is also meditation. The crane keeps quiet for hours together, without doing anything, and we call it meditation. We call it bahula dhyana in Hindi. Bahula dhyana is a peculiar kind of meditation practised by the crane. It stands on one leg. It is also a great tapasvi and does not budge an inch from that place. We think that the crane is a great yogi but its mind is on the fish. It wants to see where the fish comes up, and then darts upon it immediately and catches it.

1.05 - ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR, #Alice in Wonderland, #Lewis Carroll, #Fiction
  "Well, be off, then!" said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After awhile she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
  It was so long since she had been anything near the right size that it felt quite strange at first. "The next thing is to get into that beautiful garden--how _is_ that to be done, I wonder?" As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high. "Whoever lives there," thought Alice, "it'll never do to come upon them _this_ size; why, I should frighten them out of their wits!" She did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.

1.05 - Dharana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  4:Suppose you have chosen a white cross. It will move its bar up and down, elongate the bar, turn the bar oblique, get its arms unequal, turn upside down, grow branches, get a crack around it or a figure upon it, change its shape altogether like an Amoeba, change its size and distance as a whole, change the degree of its illumination, and at the same time change its colour. It will get splotchy and blotchy, grow patterns, rise, fall, twist and turn; clouds will pass over its face. There is no conceivable change of which it is incapable. Not to mention its total disappearance, and replacement by something altogether different!
  5:Any one to whom this experience does not occur need not imagine that he is meditating. It shows merely that he is incapable of concentrating his mind in the very smallest degree. Perhaps a student may go for several days before discovering that he is not meditating. When he does, the obstinacy of the object will infuriate him; and it is only now that his real troubles will begin, only now that Will comes really into play, only now that his manhood is tested. If it were not for the Will-development which he got in the conquest of Asana, he would probably give up. As it is, the mere physical agony which he underwent is the veriest trifle compared with the horrible tedium of Dharana.

1.05 - Hymns of Bharadwaja, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
    5. O Fire, when mortal man arrives by the fuel of thy flame to the way of the oblation and the sharpening of thy intensities, he increases his branching house, his house of the hundred of life.
    6. The smoke from thy blaze journeys and in heaven is outstretched brilliant-white. O purifying Fire, thou shinest with a flame like the light of the sun.
  --
    6. The heights of heaven were measured into form by the eye of this universal Force, they were shaped by the intuition of the Immortal. All the worlds are upon his head; the seven far-flowing rivers climbed from him like branches.
    7. The Universal mighty of will measured into form the kingdoms of middle space; a Seer, he shaped the luminous planes of Heaven. He has spread around us all these worlds; he is the guardian of immortality and its indomitable defender.
  --
    1. O felicitous Fire, of thee are all felicities and they grow wide from thee like branches from a tree. For quickly come, in the piercing of the Python adversary, the Riches and the desirable plenty and the Rain of Heaven and the flowing of the Waters.
    2. Thou art Bhaga of the felicities and thou pourest on us the ecstasy and takest up thy house in us, a pervading presence and a potent splendour. O divine Fire, like Mitra thou art a feeder on the vast Truth and the much joy and beauty.

1.05 - Mental Education, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  Generally speaking, schooling is considered to be all the mental education that is necessary. And when a child has been made to undergo, for a number of years, a methodical training which is more like cramming than true schooling, it is considered that whatever is necessary for his mental development has been done. Nothing of the kind. Even conceding that the training is given with due measure and discrimination and does not permanently damage the brain, it cannot impart to the human mind the faculties it needs to become a good and useful instrument. The schooling that is usually given can, at the most, serve as a system of gymnastics to increase the suppleness of the brain. From this standpoint, each branch of human learning represents a special kind of mental gymnastics, and the verbal formulations given to these various branches each constitute a special and well-defined language.
  A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another, but in exceptional individuals they may alternate or even proceed simultaneously. These five phases, in brief, are:

1.05 - Qualifications of the Aspirant and the Teacher, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
  Bhagavn Ramakrishna used to tell a story of some men who went into a mango orchard and busied themselves in counting the leaves, the twigs, and the branches, examining their colour, comparing their size, and noting down everything most carefully, and then got up a learned discussion on each of these topics, which were undoubtedly highly interesting to them. But one of them, more sensible than the others, did not care for all these things. and instead thereof, began to eat the mango fruit. And was he not wise? So leave this counting of leaves and twigs and note-taking to others. This kind of work has its proper place, but not here in the spiritual domain. You never see a strong spiritual man among these "leaf counters". Religion, the highest aim, the highest glory of man, does not require so much labour. If you want to be a Bhakta, it is not at all necessary for you to know whether Krishna was born in Mathur or in Vraja, what he was doing, or just the exact date on which he pronounced the teachings of the Git. You only require to feel the craving for the beautiful lessons of duty and love in the Gita. All the other particulars about it and its author are for the enjoyment of the learned. Let them have what they desire. Say "Shntih, Shntih" to their learned controversies, and let us "eat the mangoes".
  The second condition necessary in the teacher is sinlessness. The question is often asked,

1.05 - Some Results of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
   along both hands and centered in the two-petalled lotus in the region of the eyes. All this is made possible through the radiations from the larynx assuming round forms, of which a number flow to the two-petalled lotus and thence form undulating currents along the hands. As a further development, these currents branch out and ramify in the most delicate manner and become, as it were, a kind of web which then encompasses the entire etheric body as though with a network. Whereas hitherto the etheric body was not closed to the outer world, so that the life currents from the universal ocean of life flowed freely in and out, these currents now have to pass through this membrane. Thus the individual becomes sensitive to these external streams; they become perceptible to him.
  And now the time has come to give the complete system of currents and movements its center situated in the region of the heart. This again is effected by persevering with the exercises in concentration and meditation; and at this point also the stage is reached when the student becomes gifted with the inner word. All things now acquire a new significance for him. They become

1.05 - THE HOSTILE BROTHERS - ARCHETYPES OF RESPONSE TO THE UNKNOWN, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  A traveller, chased by a wild beast, jumps down an old well. He grabs the branch of a vine that happens to
  be growing there, and clings to it. At the bottom of the well lurks an ancient dragon, mouth gaping. Above
  --
  very branch that supports him. Soon they will chew their way through, and send him plummeting into the
  dragons gullet. The traveller sees some drops of honey, on the leaves of the vine. He stretches out his
  --
  gnawing away at the branch they cling to; they simply lick the drops of honey. But they lick these drops
  of honey only for the time being; something will turn their attention toward the dragon and the mice, and
  --
  works sufficiently hard, and saws off the branch on which he is sitting, then he will fall, too, into the jaws
  of the thing he ignored.
  --
  Fire, fire! The branches crackle and the night wind of late autumn blows the flame of the bonfire back
  and forth. The compound is dark; I am alone at the bonfire, and I can bring it still some more carpenters
  --
  You bastard, youll crawl on all fours. I would be better hanging myself from the first branch. And so
  he was sent off to a penalty situation. He stood it for about half a year. And he made mistakes which
  --
  instance, that the grafting of a branch of a lemon tree on to a laurel or olive tree would produce very
  small lemons, the size of olives. But he makes it clear that the graft could succeed only if it was
  --
  thus: the branch to be grafted must be held in the hands of a very beautiful maiden, while a man is
  having shameful and unnatural sexual intercourse with her; during coitus the girl grafts the branch onto
  the tree. The significance is clear: in order to ensure an unnatural union in the vegetable world an
  --
  a great tree with many branches and twigs, but it looked like an old tree, for it had no bark and no
  leaves. Seth knew that this was the tree of whose fruit his parents had eaten, for which reason it now
  --
  see the tree, before the branches. Despite this conceptual phenomenon, the tree has no objective precedence over the
   branches (or the leaves, or the cells that make up the leaves, or the forest, for that matter). Roger Brown, following
  --
  There are early medieval representations of the genealogical tree of Christ. On the branches, as the fruits of the
  tree, are the prophets and all Christs ancestors. The roots of the tree grow out of the skull of Adam, and Christ is its
  --
  Well, the tree sometimes grows out of Adams navel, and on the branches, as you say, sit the prophets and kings of
  the Old Testament, Christs ancestors, and then on top of the tree is the triumphant Christ. That life begins with

1.05 - The Magical Control of the Weather, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  and discoverers in every branch of natural science. They began the
  work which has since been carried to such glorious and beneficent
  --
  the west of New Guinea, a wizard makes rain by dipping a branch of a
  particular kind of tree in water and then scattering the moisture
  --
  it. Next they take branches of trees and dance and sing for rain.
  When they return to the village they find a vessel of water set at
  the doorway by an old woman; so they dip their branches in it and
  wave them aloft, so as to scatter the drops. After that the rain is
  --
  water-drops by means of branches is a purely magical ceremony, the
  prayer for rain and the offering of beer are purely religious rites.
  --
  in Hadramaut. They cut a branch from a certain tree in the desert,
  set it on fire, and then sprinkled the burning brand with water.
  --
  this hole a conical hut of logs and branches is made. Two wizards,
  supposed to have received a special inspiration from the Mura-muras,
  --
  on the ends of spruce branches.
  The same power of influencing the weather is attributed to twins by
  --
  Baptist, while they dip in the water a figure made of branches,
  grass, and herbs, which is supposed to represent the saint. In
  --
  leaves and branches of the _nm_ tree (_Azadirachta Indica_) and
  carry it from door to door singing:
  --
  churches. Palm branches, blessed on Palm Sunday, had been hung on
  the trees. At Solaparuta, in accordance with a very old custom, the
  --
  drought, the priest of Zeus dipped an oak branch into a certain
  spring on Mount Lycaeus. Thus troubled, the water sent up a misty
  --
  flat stone, places a branch of dry coral beside them, and hangs the
  bundle of charms over the stone. Next morning he returns to the spot

1.05 - The New Consciousness, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  But at the beginning this functioning is still unsure. We are constantly snatched back by the old machinery, the habit of mulling over thoughts, judging, deducing, calculating, and immediately it is as if a veil fell, a screen came between the quiet clarity behind and the arduous whirlwind here: communications are jammed. Again we have to take a step back and find the comfortable expanse and it is irritating, uncommunicative and apparently indifferent to our fate, opposing a neutral silence, an unrelieved blankness to the question we send it and which would yet call for an immediate answer. So we yield once more; we start up the machine again only to realize that everything was blank behind so we would not move in front, and that the time for an answer had not yet come. We keep stumbling along and persisting, trustful but awkward outwardly (or in front), when circumstances would call for swiftness and efficiency, and those who work with the old reason may scoff, as perhaps the old veteran anthropoid scoffed at the clumsiness of the apprentice man: we miss the branch. We fall and pick ourselves up. We go on. But gradually, as our demechanization gains ground, grows sure-footed and more perfect, the communications become clearer, the perceptions more accurate and precise. We begin to unravel a whole jumbled network that had previously seemed like logic itself. From within the tranquil clarity, we notice a multitude of movements rising from below, from outside, from others; it is a mixture of vibrations, a cacophony of minuscule impulses, a battlefield, an arena filled with obscure contenders, blind drives, dark flashes, microscopic and stubborn wills. And all of a sudden, in all that muddle falls a tiny little drop from our quiet river without our wanting it or trying or even asking for it and everything loosens up, smoothes out, disappears, dissolves. That face there in front of us, this grating little circumstance, that knot of difficulty, this stubborn resistance vanishes, melts away, smoothes out, opens up as if by magic. We begin to enter mastery.
  But it is a curious sort of mastery it does not obey us at all! On the contrary, the minute we try to use it, it eludes us completely, slips through our fingers, pokes fun at us and leaves us looking foolish, like an apprentice sculptor trying to imitate the stroke of the Master: our stroke misses. We even hit our fingers. And we learn. Perhaps we learn not to want anything. But it is a little more complicated than that complicated from our standpoint, of course, because everything is complicated on this side; it is complexity itself. In fact, it is simple. We are learning the law of rhythm. Because Truth is a rhythm.

1.05 - The Universe The 0 = 2 Equation, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  D. We also tend to think of the Universe as containing things of which we are not aware; but this is altogether unjustifiable, although it is difficult to think at all without making some such assumption. For instance, one may come upon a new branch of knowledge say, histology or Hammurabi or the language of the Iroquois or the poems of the Hermaphrodite of Panormita. It seems to be there all ready waiting for us; we simply cannot believe that we are making it all up as we go along. For all that, it is sheer sophistry; we may merely be unfolding the contents of our own minds. Then again, does a thing cease to exist if we forget it? The answer is that one cannot be sure.
  Personally, I feel convinced of the existence of an Universe outside my own immediate awareness; but it is true, even so, that it does not exist for me unless and until it takes its place as part of my consciousness.

1.06 - Being Human and the Copernican Principle, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
  The biologists, eager to insert the various branches of
  their science within the framework of physics, have adopt

1.06 - Iconography, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  hand holding a branch of
  the ashoka tree.
  --
  holding a branch of the
  ashoka tree.
  --
  tree branch in her
  left hand.

1.06 - MORTIFICATION, NON-ATTACHMENT, RIGHT LIVELIHOOD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  In the first seven branches of his Eightfold Path the Buddha describes the conditions that must be fulfilled by anyone who desires to come to that right contemplation which is the eighth and final branch. The fulfilment of these conditions entails the undertaking of a course of the most searching and comprehensive mortificationmortification of intellect and will, craving and emotion, thought, speech, action and, finally, means of livelihood. Certain professions are more or less completely incompatible with the achievement of mans final end; and there are certain ways of making a living which do so much physical and, above all, so much moral, intellectual and spiritual harm that, even if they could be practised in a non-attached spirit (which is generally impossible), they would still have to be eschewed by anyone dedicated to the task of liberating, not only himself, but others. The exponents of the Perennial Philosophy are not content to avoid and forbid the practice of criminal professions, such as brothel-keeping, forgery, racketeering and the like; they also avoid themselves, and warn others against, a number of ways of livelihood commonly regarded as legitimate. Thus, in many Buddhist societies, the manufacture of arms, the concoction of intoxicating liquors and the wholesale purveying of butchers meat were not, as in contemporary Christendom, rewarded by wealth, peerages and political influence; they were deplored as businesses which, it was thought, made it particularly difficult for their practitioners and for other members of the communities in which they were practised to achieve enlightenment and liberation. Similarly, in mediaeval Europe, Christians were forbidden to make a living by the taking of interest on money or by cornering the market. As Tawney and others have shown, it was only after the Reformation that coupon-clipping, usury and gambling in stocks and commodities became respectable and received ecclesiastical approval.
  For the Quakers, soldiering was and is a form of wrong livelihoodwar being, in their eyes, anti-Christian, not so much because it causes suffering as because it propagates hatred, puts a premium on fraud and cruelty, infects whole societies with anger, fear, pride and uncharitableness. Such passions eclipse the Inner Light, and therefore the wars by which they are aroused and intensified, must be regarded, whatever their immediate political outcome, as crusades to make the world safe for spiritual darkness.

1.06 - Origin of the four castes, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  [6]: In the other three Purāṇas, in which this legend has been found, the different kinds of inhabited places are specified and p. 46 introduced by a series of land measures. Thus the Mārkaṇḍeya states, that 10 Paramāṇus = 1 Parasūkṣma; 10 Parasūkṣmas = 1 Trasareṇu; 10 Trasareṇus = 1 particle of dust, or Mahīrajas; 10 Mahīrajasas = 1 Bālāgra, 'hair's point;' 10 Bālāgras = 1 Likhyā; 10 Likhyās= 1 Yūka; to Yūkas = 1 heart of barley (Yavodara); 10 Yavodaras = 1 grain of barley of middle size; 10 barley grains = 1 finger, or inch; 6 fingers = a Pada, or foot (the breadth of it); 2 Padas = 1 Vitasti, or span; 2 spans = 1 Hasta, or cubit; 4 Hastas = a Dhanu, a Danda, or staff, or 2 Nārikās; 2000 Dhanus = a Gavyūti; 4 Gavyūtis = a Yojana. The measurement of the Brahmāṇḍa is less detailed. A span from the thumb to the first finger is a Pradeśa; to the middle finger, a Nāla; to the third finger, a Gokerna; and to the little finger, a Vitasti, which is equal to twelve Angulas, or fingers; understanding thereby, according to the Vāyu, a joint of the finger; according to other authorities, it is the breadth of the thumb at the tip. (A. R. 5. 104.) The Vāyu, giving similar measurements upon the authority of Manu, although such a statement does not occur in the Manu Sanhitā, adds, that 21 fingers= 1 Ratni; 24 fingers = 1 Hasta, or cubit; 2 Ratnis = 1 Kiṣku; 4 Hastas = 1 Dhanu; 2000 Dhanus = l Gavyūti; and 8000 Dhanus = 1 Yojana. Durgas, or strong holds, are of four kinds; three of which are natural, from, their situation in mountains, amidst water, or in other inaccessible spots; the fourth is the artificial defences of a village (Grāma), a hamlet (Kheṭaka), or a city (Pura or Nagara), which are severally half the size of the next in the series. The best kind of city is one which is about a mile long by half a mile broad, built in the form of a parallelogram, facing the northeast, and surrounded by a high wall and ditch. A hamlet should be a Yojana distant from a city: a village half a Yojana from a hamlet. The roads leading to the cardinal points from a city should be twenty Dhanus (above too feet) broad: a village road should be the same: a boundary road ten Dhanus: a royal or principal road or street should be ten Dhanus (above fifty feet) broad: a cross or branch road should be four Dhanus. Lanes and paths amongst the houses are two Dhanus in breadth: footpaths four cubits: the entrance of a house three cubits: the private entrances and paths about the mansion of still narrower dimensions. Such were the measurements adopted by the first builders of cities, according to the Purāṇas specified.
  [7]: These are enumerated in the text, as well as in the Vāyu and Mārkaṇḍeya P., and are, Udāra, a sort of grain with long stalks (perhaps a holcus); Kodrava (Paspalum kora); Cīnaka, a sort of panic (P. miliaceum); Māṣa, kidney bean (Phaseolus radiatus); Mudga (Phaseolus mungo); Masūra, lentil (Ervum hirsutum); Nishpāva, a sort of pulse; Kulattha (Dolithos p. 47 biflorus); Arhaki (Cytisus Cajan); Chanaka, chick pea (Cicer arietinum); and Sana (Crotolaria).

1.06 - Psycho therapy and a Philosophy of Life, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  would be sawing off the branch on which we sit. In other words, the art of
  psycho therapy requires that the therapist be in possession of avowable,

1.06 - The Breaking of the Limits, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  And it is true that the world starts changing before our eyes and that nothing is insignificant anymore, nothing is separate from the rest. We witness a great, total birth. Our simple look has strange extensions, our little gesture a reverberating echo. But here again, it is a timid birth; it is more like scattered little hints of birth. The seeker stops and stares at a scattering of little outbreaks, of happenings with no apparent connection, a little like the ancient hominid staring at a pliant branch here and a vine and a piece of flint over there before tying them into a bow and felling his prey in full career. He does not know the connections they almost have to be invented. But our inventions are only a discovery of what is already there, like the river and the vine in the forest. A new world is a discovery of new connections. Now, ours is the age of introspection of the second kind, when the invention, the true invention, is no longer one that will bring two material objects together by means of the subtle phenomenon of thought, but one that will be able to bring together that same matter and the subtler phenomenon of a second degree of consciousness, silent and without thought. The task of our age is no longer to perfect matter through matter, to enlarge matter by adding more matter to it we are already suffocating under the monstrous plethora which fetters us and which, at bottom, is only an improvement of the ape's technique but to transform matter through that subtler power, or rather, perhaps, to make it reveal its own innate power of truth.
  It is difficult to choose examples from those thousands of microscopic little experiences which one hardly knows whether to call experiences, coincidences or imaginations. Yet they keep cropping up, insisting, as if an invisible finger of light were guiding our steps, checking this gesture, exerting a subtle pressure on one point or another, until we understand then the pressure is lifted and we move on to another point, which seems to come back again and again with the same obstinacy. An experience is a thousand experiences unaware of themselves. There is no recipe, no instruction sheet; the only way is to walk, stumble, walk more, until, all of a sudden, there is a little ah! which fills a thousand gaps at once.

1.06 - The Literal Qabalah, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Alphabet, rendering study and memorization more simple than otherwise might be the case. It is essential to again emphasize the fact that unless these attri butions are com- mitted to memory, at least partially, and a number of new correspondences added from the separate store of know- ledge at the disposal of each student, very little benefit will be derived. The Tree must be made to grow in one's own mind so that, although its roots are firmly implanted in the earth of one's body, its uppermost branches soar high and sway gently, wafted to and fro by faint zephyr-like breezes of the spiritual realms.
  A few methods of applying Qabalistic ideas will now be demonstrated, the reader bearing firmly in mind that each letter has a number, symbol, and Tarot card attributed to it. The Rabbis who originally worked on the Qabalah discovered so much of interest and importance behind the merely superficial value of numbers and of words embody- ing and representing these numbers, that they gradually developed an elaborate science of numerical conceptions altogether apart from mathematics as such. They devised various methods of number interpretation to discover, primarily, the hidden meaning of their scriptures.

1.06 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: "Is it possible to understand God's action and His motive? He creates, He preserves, and He destroys. Can we ever understand why He destroys? I say to the Divine Mother: 'O Mother, I do not need to understand. Please give me love for Thy Lotus Feet.' The aim of human life is to attain bhakti. As for other things, the Mother knows best. I have come to the garden to eat mangoes. What is the use of my calculating the number of trees, branches, and leaves? I only eat the mangoes; I don't need to know the number of trees and leaves."
  Baburam, M., and Ramdayal slept that night on the floor of the Master's room.

1.06 - Yun Men's Every Day is a Good Day, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
  Many people pursue the branches and don't seek the root. First
  get the root right, then naturally when the wind blows the

1.07 - BOOK THE SEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Or mellow fruit from shaken branches fall.
  You see that dome which rears its front so high:
  --
  As many ants the num'rous branches bear,
  The same their labour, and their frugal care;
  The branches too a like commotion sound,
  And shook th' industrious creatures on the ground,

1.07 - Note on the word Go, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The next passage to which I shall turn is the eighth verse of the eighth hymn, also to Indra, in which occurs the expression , a passage which when taken in the plain and ordinary sense of the epithets sheds a great light on the nature of Mahi. Sunrita means really true and is opposed to anrita, false for in the early Aryan speech su and s would equally signify, well, good, very; and the euphonic n is of a very ancient type of sandhioriginally, it was probably no more than a strong anuswartraces of which can still be found in Tamil; in the case of su this n euphonic seems to have been dropped after the movement of the literary Aryan tongue towards the modern principle of Sandhi,a movement the imperfect progress of which we see in the Vedas; but by that time the form an, composed of privative a and the euphonic n, had become a recognised alternative form to a and the omission of the n would have left the meaning of words very ambiguous; therefore n was preserved in the negative form, omitted from the affirmative where its omission caused no inconvenience,for to write gni instead of anagni would be confusing, but to write svagni instead of sunagni would create no confusion. In the pair sunrita and anrita it is probable that the usage had become so confirmed, so much of an almost technical phraseology, that confirmed habit prevailed over new rule. The second meaning of the word is auspicious, derived from the idea good or beneficent in its regular action. The Vedic scholars give a third sense, quick, active; but this is probably due to confusion with an originally distinct word derived from the root , to move on rapidly, to be strong, swift, active from which we have to dance, & strong and a number of other derivatives, for although ri means to go, it does not appear that rita was used in the sense of motion or swiftness. In any case our choice (apart from unnecessary ingenuities) lies here between auspicious and true. If we take Mahi in the sense of earth, the first is its simplest & most natural significance.We shall have then to translate the earth auspicious (or might it mean true in the sense observing the law of the seasons), wide-watered, full of cows becomes like a ripe branch to the giver. This gives a clear connected sense, although gross and pedestrian and open to the objection that it has no natural and inevitable connection with the preceding verses. My objection is that sunrita and gomati seem to me to have in the Veda a different and deeper sense and that the whole passage becomes not only ennobled in sense, but clearer & more connected in sense if we give them that deeper significance. Gomatir ushasah in Kutsas hymn to the Dawn is certainly the luminous dawns; Saraswati in the third hymn who as chodayitri sunritanam chetanti sumatinam shines pervading all the actions of the understanding, certainly does so because she is the impeller to high truths, the awakener to right thoughts, clear perceptions and not because she is the impeller of things auspiciousa phrase which would have no sense or appropriateness to the context. Mahi is one of the three goddesses Ila, Saraswati and Mahi who are described as tisro devir mayobhuvah, the three goddesses born of delight or Ananda, and her companions being goddesses of knowledge, children of Mahas, she also must be a goddess of knowledge, not the earth; the word mahi also bears the sense of knowledge, intellect, and Mahas undoubtedly refers in many passages to the vijnana or supra-rational level of consciousness, the fourth Vyahriti of the Taittiriya Upanishad. What then prevents us from taking Mahi, here as there, in the sense of the goddess of suprarational knowledge or, if taken objectively, the world of Mahat? Nothing, except a tradition born in classical times when mahi was the earth and the new Nature-worship theory. In this sense I shall take it. I translate the line For thus Mahi the true, manifest in action, luminous becomes like a ripe branch to the giveror, again in better English, For thus Mahi the perfect in truth, manifesting herself in action, full of illumination, becomes as a ripe branch to the giver. For the Yogin again the sense is clear. All things are contained in the Mahat, derived from the Mahat, depend on theMahat, but we here in the movement of the alpam, have not our desire, are blinded & confined, enjoy an imperfect, erroneous & usually baffled & futile activity. It is only when we regain the movement of the Mahat, the large & uncontracted consciousness that comes from rising to the infinite,it is only then that we escape from this limitation. She is perfect in truth, full of illumination; error and ignorance disappear; she manifests herself virapshi in a wide & various activity; our activities are enlarged, our desires are fulfilled. The connection with the preceding stanzas becomes clear. The Vritras, the great obstructors & upholders of limitation, are slain by the help of Indra, by the result of the yajnartham karma, by alliance with the armed gods in mighty internal battle; Indra, the god within our mental force, manifests himself as supreme and full of the nature of ideal truth from which his greatness weaponed with the vajra, vidyut or electric principle, derives (mahitwam astu vajrine). The mind, instinct with amrita, is then full of equality, samata; it drinks in the flood of activity of all kinds as the sea takes in the rivers. For the condition then results in which the ideal consciousness Mahi is like a ripe branch to the giver, when all powers & expansions of being at once (without obstacle as the Vritras are slain) become active in consciousness as masterful and effective knowledge or awareness (chit). This is the process prayed for by the poet. The whole hymn becomes a consecutive & intelligible whole, a single thought worked out logically & coherently and relating with perfect accuracy of ensemble & detail to one of the commonest experiences of Yogic fulfilment. In both these passages the faithful adherence to the intimations of language, Vedantic idea & Yogic experience have shed a flood of light, illuminating the obscurity of the Vedas, bringing coherence into the incoherence of the naturalistic explanation, close & strict logic, great depth of meaning with great simplicity of expression, and, as I shall show when I take up the final interpretation of the separate hymns, a rational meaning & reason of existence in that particular place for each word & phrase and a faultless & inevitable connection with what goes before & with what goes after. It is worth noticing that by the naturalistic interpretation one can indeed generally make out a meaning, often a clear or fluent sense for the separate verses of the Veda, but the ensemble of the hymn has almost always about it an air bizarre, artificial, incoherent, almost purposeless, frequently illogical and self-contradictoryas in Max Mullers translation of the 39th hymn, Kanwas to the Maruts,never straightforward, self-assured & easy. One would expect in these primitive writers,if they are primitive,crudeness of belief perhaps, but still plainness of expression and a simple development of thought. One finds instead everything tortuous, rugged, gnarled, obscure, great emptiness with great pretentiousness of mind, a labour of diction & development which seems to be striving towards great things & effecting a nullity. The Vedic singers, in the modern version, have nothing to say and do not know how to say it. I sacrifice, you drink, you are fine fellows, dont hurt me or let others hurt me, hurt my enemies, make me safe & comfortablethis is practically all that the ten Mandalas have to say to the gods & it is astonishing that they should be utterly at a loss how to say it intelligibly. A system which yields such results must have at its root some radical falsity, some cardinal error.
  I pass now to a third passage, also instructive, also full of that depth and fine knowledge of the movements of the higher consciousness which every Yogin must find in the Veda. It is in the 9th hymn of the Mandala and forms the seventh verse of that hymn. Sam gomad Indra vajavad asme prithu sravo brihat, visvayur dhehi akshitam. The only crucial question in this verse is the signification of sravas.With our modern ideas the sentence seems to us to demand that sravas should be translated here fame. Sravas is undoubtedly the same word as the Greek xo (originally xFo); it means a thing heard, rumour, report, & thence fame. If we take it in that sense, we shall have to translate Arrange for us, O universal life, a luminous and solid, wide & great fame unimpaired. I dismiss at once the idea that go & vaja can here signify cattle and food or wealth. A herded & fooded or wealthy fame to express a fame for wealth of cattle & food is a forceful turn of expression we might expect to find in Aeschylus or in Shakespeare; but I should hesitate, except in case of clear necessity, to admit it in the Veda or in any Sanscrit style of composition; for such expressions have always been alien to the Indian intellect. Our stylistic vagaries have been of another kind. But is luminous & solid fame much better? I shall suggest another meaning for sravas which will give as usual a deeper sense to the whole passage without our needing to depart by a hairs breadth from the etymological significance of the words. Sruti in Sanscrit is a technical term, originally, for the means by which Vedic knowledge is acquired, inspiration in the suprarational mind; srutam is the knowledge of Veda. Similarly, we have in Vedic Sanscrit the forms srut and sravas. I take srut to mean inspired knowledge in the act of reception, sravas the thing acquired by the reception, inspired knowledge. Gomad immediately assumes its usual meaning illuminated, full of illumination. Vaja I take throughout the Veda as a technical Vedic expression for that substantiality of being-consciousness which is the basis of all special manifestation of being & power, all utayah & vibhutayahit means by etymology extended being in force, va or v to exist or move in extension and the vocable j which always gives the idea of force or brilliance or decisiveness in action or manifestation or contact. I shall accept no meaning which is inconsistent with this fundamental significance. Moreover the tendency of the old commentators to make all possible words, vaja, ritam etc mean sacrifice or food, must be rejected,although a justification in etymology might always be made out for the effort. Vaja means substance in being, substance, plenty, strength, solidity, steadfastness. Here it obviously means full of substance, just as gomad full of luminousness,not in the sense arthavat, but with another & psychological connotation. I translate then, O Indra, life of all, order for us an inspired knowledge full of illumination & substance, wide & great and unimpaired. Anyone acquainted with Yoga will at once be struck by the peculiar & exact appropriateness of all these epithets; they will admit him at once by sympathy into the very heart of Madhuchchhandas experience & unite him in soul with that ancient son of Visvamitra. When Mahas, the supra-rational principle, begins with some clearness to work in Yoga, not on its own level, not swe dame, but in the mind, it works at first through the principle of Srutinot Smriti or Drishti, but this Sruti is feeble & limited in its range, it is not prithu; broken & scattered in its working even when the range is wide, not unlimited in continuity, not brihat; not pouring in a flood of light, not gomat, but coming as a flash in the darkness, often with a pale glimmer like the first feebleness of dawn; not supported by a strong steady force & foundation of being, Sat, in manifestation, not vajavad, but working without foundation, in a void, like secondh and glimpses of Sat in nothingness, in vacuum, in Asat; and, therefore, easily impaired, easily lost hold of, easily stolen by the Panis or the Vritras. All these defects Madhuchchhanda has noticed in his own experience; his prayer is for an inspired knowledge which shall be full & free & perfect, not marred even in a small degree by these deficiencies.

1.07 - Savitri, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  We can at last see how from among scattered seeds a single huge banyan tree has grown and spread itself to the transcendent and the cosmic infinite and excites our perpetual wonder. I wish I could provide a more faithful and vivid picture of its daily growth, a branch here, an offshoot there, trimming the old twigs, reviving the dying ones, discarding the outworn crowding branches till there soared up into the sky a majestic vision under whose perennial shade the world can repose awhile, in its long journey to the Eternal. To show how he expanded the poem I may quote one long new passage which he appended to the end of Book II, Canto VI, The Kingdoms and the Godheads of the Greater Life:
  "In a high state where ignorance is no more,

1.07 - The Fire of the New World, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  It is this Fire that is the power of the worlds, the original igniter of evolution, the force in the rock, the force in the seed, the force in the middle of the house. This is the lever, the seer, the one that can break the circle and all the circles of our successive thralldoms material, animal, vital and mental. No species, even pushed to its extreme of efficiency and intelligence and light, has the power to transcend its own limits not the chameleon, not the ape, not man by the fiat of its improved chromosomes alone. It is only this Fire that can. This is the point of otherness, the supreme moment of imagination that sets fire to the old limits, as one day a similar supreme moment of imagination lit one and the same fire in the heart of the worlds and cast that solar seed upon the waters of time, and all those waves, those circles around it, to help it grow better, until each rootlet, each branch and twig of the great efflorescence is able to attain its own infinite, delivered by its very greatness.
  And we return again to our question: What is this new consciousness? Where did it come from if it is not the fruit of our precious brain?... At bottom, the dread of the materialist is to find himself suddenly face to face, without warning, with a God to adore, and we certainly sympathize with him when we see the puerile pictures the religions have painted of Him. The apes, too, if they had such an idea, would have painted as childish a picture of the supernatural and divine powers of man. Is to be worshipped what makes us wider, more beautiful, more sunlit; and ultimately, that wideness, beauty and sunlight are accessible to us only because they are already there in us, otherwise we would not recognize them. Only the like recognizes the like. This growing likeness is the only godhead worthy of worship. But we want to believe that it does not stop with the gilded mediocrity of our scientific feats, any more than it stopped with the prowess of the Pithecanthropus. This new consciousness is therefore not so new; it is our look which is new, the likeness which is growing more perfect (we should perhaps say the world's exactitude which is drawing closer). This world, as we now all know, is not as it appears; this matter, so solid to our eyes, this water so crystalline, this exquisite rose vanish into something else, and the rose never was rose, nor the water crystalline; this water flows and bubbles as much as this table and this rock, and nothing is immobile. We have widened our field of vision. But what destroyed the rose? Which is right, the microscope or our eyes? Probably both, and neither completely. The microscope neither cancels nor negates our superficial vision; it only touches another degree of reality, a second level of the same thing. And because the microscope sees differently, it can act differently and open up to us a whole spectrum of rays that are going to change our surface. But there may be a third, unexplored level of the same eternal Thing yet another look, for what is new under the stars except our look at the stars? And most likely there are still more levels, infinitely more levels awaiting our discovery, for what could possibly put a final stop to the great efflorescence? There is no stop, no distant Goal; there is our growing look and a Goal which is here at each instant. There is a great blossoming gradually stripping its marvel, petal by petal. And each new look changes our world and all the surface laws as drastically as the laws of Einstein have changed Newton's world. To see differently is to be able to do differently. That third level is the new consciousness. And it cancels neither the rose nor the microscope nothing is canceled in the end, except, gradually, our folly. It only links that rose to the great total blossoming, and that bubbling water, that chance pebble, that little being alone in his corner, to the great flow of the one and only Power which gradually molds us into the golden likeness of a great inner Look. And perhaps it will open for us the door to less monstrous miracles: tiny natural miracles that bring the great Goal alive at each instant and reveal the totality of the marvel in one point.

1.07 - THE GREAT EVENT FORESHADOWED - THE PLANETIZATION OF MANKIND, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  finitesimal to the immense another branch appears, rising through
  Time from the infinitely simple to the supremely complicated. It is
  on this branch that the consciousness-phenomenon has its place
  124 THE FUTURE OF MAN

1.07 - THE MASTER AND VIJAY GOSWAMI, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "When the dry branch of a coconut palm drops to the ground, it leaves only a mark on the trunk indicating that once there was a branch at that place. In like manner, he who has attained God keeps only an appearance of ego; there remains in him only a semblance of anger and lust. He becomes like a child. A child has no attachment to the three gunas-sattva, rajas, and tamas. He becomes as quickly detached from a thing as he becomes attached to it. You can cajole him out of a cloth worth five rupees with a doll worth an nn, though at first he may say with great determination: 'No, I won't give it to you. My daddy bought it for me.' Again, all persons are the same to a child.
  He has no feeling of high and low in regard to persons. So he doesn't discriminate about caste. If his mother tells him that a particular man should be regarded as an elder brother, the child will eat from the same plate with him, though the man may belong to the low caste of a blacksmith. The child doesn't know hate, or what is holy or unholy.

1.07 - TRUTH, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  The overvaluation of words and formulae may be regarded as a special case of that overvaluation of the things of time, which is so fatally characteristic of historic Christianity. To know Truth-as-Fact and to know it unitively, in spirit and in truth-as-immediate-apprehensionthis is deliverance, in this standeth our eternal life. To be familiar with the verbalized truths, which symbolically correspond to Truth-as-Fact insofar as it can be known in, or inferred from, truth-as-immediate-apprehension, or truth-as-historic-revelationthis is not salvation, but merely the study of a special branch of philosophy. Even the most ordinary experience of a thing or event in time can never be fully or adequately described in words. The experience of seeing the sky or having neuralgia is incommunicable; the best we can do is to say blue or pain, in the hope that those who hear us may have had experiences similar to our own and so be able to supply their own version of the meaning. God, however, is not a thing or event in time, and the time-bound words which cannot do justice even to temporal matters are even more inadequate to the intrinsic nature and our own unitive experience of that which belongs to an incommensurably different order. To suppose that people can be saved by studying and giving assent to formulae is like supposing that one can get to Timbuctoo by poring over a map of Africa. Maps are symbols, and even the best of them are inaccurate and imperfect symbols. But to anyone who really wants to reach a given destination, a map is indispensably useful as indicating the direction in which the traveller should set out and the roads which he must take.
  In later Buddhist philosophy words are regarded as one of the prime determining factors in the creative evolution of human beings. In this philosophy five categories of being are recognizedName, Appearance, Discrimination, Right Knowledge. Suchness. The first three are related for evil, the last two for good. Appearances are discriminated by the sense organs, then reified by naming, so that words are taken for things and symbols are used as the measure of reality. According to this view, language is a main source of the sense of separateness and the blasphemous idea of individual self-sufficiency, with their inevitable corollaries of greed, envy, lust for power, anger and cruelty. And from these evil passions there springs the necessity of an indefinitely protracted and repeated separate existence under the same, self-perpetuated conditions of craving and infatuation. The only escape is through a creative act of the will, assisted by Buddha-grace, leading through selflessness to Right Knowledge, which consists, among other things, in a proper appraisal of Names, Appearances and Discrimination. In and through Right Knowledge, one emerges from the infatuating delusion of I, me, mine, and, resisting the temptation to deny the world in a state of premature and one-sided ecstasy, or to affirm it by living like the average sensual man, one comes at last to the transfiguring awareness that samsara and nirvana are one, to the unitive apprehension of pure Suchness the ultimate Ground, which can only be indicated, never adequately described in verbal symbols.

1.081 - The Application of Pratyahara, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  In every branch of learning there is the theory aspect and the practical aspect, whether it is in mathematics, or physics, or any other aspect of study. Here it is of a similar nature. Why is it that the mind is to be withdrawn from the object? The answer to this question is in the theoretical aspect which is the philosophy. What is wrong with the mind in its contemplation on things? Why should we not think of an object? Why we should not think of an object cannot be answered now, at this stage, when we have actually taken up this practice. We ought to have understood it much earlier. When we have started walking, it means that we already know why we are walking and where is our destination. We cannot start walking and say, Where am I walking to? Why did we start walking without knowing the destination? Likewise, if our question as to why this is necessary at all is not properly answered within our own self, then immediately there will be repulsion from the mind and it will say, You do not know what you are doing. You are merely troubling me. Then the mind will not agree to this proposal of abstraction.
  Hence, there should be a very clear notion before we set about doing things; and this is a principle to be followed in every walk of life. Without knowing what is to be done, why do we start doing anything? Even if it is cooking, we must know the theory first. What is it about? We cannot run about higgledy-piggledy without understanding it. The purpose of the withdrawal of the mind or the senses from the objects is simple; and that simple answer to this question is that the nature of things does not permit the notion that the mind entertains when it contacts an object. The idea that we have in our mind at the time of cognising an object is not in consonance with the nature of Truth. This is why the mind is to be withdrawn from the object. There is a peculiar definition which the mind imposes upon the object of sense at the time of cognising it, for the purpose of contacting it, etc. This definition is contrary to the true nature of that object. If we call an ass a dog, that would not be a proper definition; it would be a misunderstanding of its real essence. The object of sense is not related to the subject of perception in the manner in which the subject is defining it or conceiving it.

1.08a - The Ladder, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Power) the Adept busies himself with the investigation of every branch and formula of practical Magick, and acquires what are known as the Siddhis or magical powers.
  He then advances to the grade of 7 =4 , the Adeptus

1.08 - BOOK THE EIGHTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  And its long branches sweat a chilly dew.
  But when his impious hand a wound bestow'd,

1.08 - The Change of Vision, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  But at least we have progressed in one direction, which is not the one we think. We have completed the cycle of the ape; we have pushed to its ultimate consequence the simple little gesture that tied a vine to a branch to make a bow; we have inflated and overinflated the mental balloon to its breaking point. And Nature's design is accomplished, which was not just to take stock of the world, but to lead the whole species to the zero point, to that supreme juncture where there is not a single jungle left to explore, not one sea to plumb, not one Himalaya, when soon not even an acre of ground will be left for our concrete and steel structures, when even the gods have been squeezed dry of all their juices and collect dust on the shelves of our libraries, when life collapses under its own weight and leaves us again, like ancient man under the stars, alone, face to face with the mystery of the earth, to find the name of things, their power of being, the true vibration that dwells in us and links us to the world: the naked mystery of this unsullied moment, the original music of things, which is perhaps their ultimate truth and ultimate power, an original vision that is a new birth of the world, and perhaps the promise of its transformation. This is the end of the mental world. We are before naked matter. We are at the time of the great Invention.
  And we are almost ridiculously inadequate for such a fabulous adventure. What do we have? A little fire inside, whose goal we do not even know, but which burns with us, accompanies our steps, our thousands of steps in the great vain machine; a little clearing that sometimes seems so lovely and light, and so fragile in the midst of the huge empty chaos that's all we have. It is childlike and transparent and almost ridiculous amid the strides of the caparisoned colossi of the mind. And what do we discover? A breath, a nothing, a speck of gold glittering for a moment and then vanishing. There is nothing sensational. It is the opposite of sensational; it is unassuming minuteness; it is perhaps nothing, and it is everything. It is as fluid as the man bending for the first time over the first river in the world and looking at a blade of grass pass by, and then another (come from where, carried away where?), a fugitive reflection of the sky, and that other little cascade in his heart. But it all makes a single whole, and for a fraction of a second, a sort of look opens up and pervades that drop of water and the blade of grass with infinity, and the over there it comes from and the other there it goes to, as if everything had already happened, as if nothing ever happened, nothing ever passed: an eternal meeting between that pink in the sky, this heartbeat and this frail blade of grass. And other blades of grass may come, other pinks or blues or blacks go by, but it is always the same thing meeting itself, at the same point, with other faces and other names. So, something begins to take root in this meeting point of the worlds, as if one and the same look were looking at one and the same story. And everything is tranquil, identical and clear; there is no need to strain toward tomorrow, to grasp at that pink or blue, this blade of grass or that one; there are no other points out there, or else it is the same one and the same things meeting each other; there is only one point at each instant, and the whole world passes through it, along with Sagittarius and Betelgeuse and that twig. All is contained there, for ages upon ages. We just have to listen to the music of that point to hear all other music, we just have to be there to be with all other beings, past, present and future there is but one story in the world and one moment and one being. It is right there; we are in it. There will be nothing more, nothing else, in three thousand years or a hundred thousand.
  From then on, each thing is, simply and absolutely. We are at that meeting point of being, and we look at the great world, brand new. There is no hope for anything else, no expectation, no regret or desire if it is not there at that moment, it will never be there! Everything is there, the total totality of all possible futures. Water may flow, and the faces and thunder of the world, the costume of the moment, the cry of the passerby, the flying seed. The great kaleidoscope turns and strews beings, events, countries and their kings, and this fleeting second, colors them blue, red or gold, but there is still the same look at the meeting point, the same second and the same thing in different colors, the same beings with their sorrows, with white skin or dark, in this century or another. There is nothing new under the sun, nothing to expect! There is that one little second to delve into, delve into and deepen, to live totally, as if forever and ever; there is that unique thing that passes, that unique being, that speck of pollen or dust, that unique happening in the world. Then everything begins to be filled with such total meaning, to extend and branch out to the four corners of the world, to vibrate with total significance, as if this face, that chance encounter, that passing blue or black hue, this unexpected stumbling or bird feather floating in the wind brought us a message each thing is a message, a sign of our position and the position of the whole. Nothing exists in relation to this little shadow anymore, to its needs, its desires, its expectation of things or people everything is without plus or minus, good or evil, rejection or choice or preference or will of any kind. What could we possibly want? We already have everything, forever. What else is there! Each passing circumstance divulges its keynote, its pure music, its innermost meaning, without addition or subtraction, without false visual color through things and beings we watch one and the same tranquil eternity unfolding. We are in our point of eternity, in a look of truth. We are at that crossroads of being, which, for a moment, seems to open innumerably upon everything. One full little second. Where is the lack, the vain, the missing? Where is the big, the infinite, the useful or useless? We have arrived; we are right in the Thing. There is no more quest for rosewood in the forest of the great world; everything is rosewood and each thing is the one essence. A kind of warm gold begins to glow everywhere.
  And the seeker has put his finger on the fourth golden rule of the passage: Each second totally and clearly.

1.08 - The Depths of the Divine, #Sex Ecology Spirituality, #Ken Wilber, #Philosophy
  But when, following the invisible steps of thought, we come to inquire, Whence is matter? and Whereto? many truths arise to us out of the recesses of consciousness. We learn that the highest is present to the soul of man; that the dread universal essence, which is not wisdom, or love, or beauty, or power, but all in one, and each entirely, is that for which all things exist, and that by which they are; that spirit creates; that behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present; one and not compound it does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit . . . does not build up nature around us, but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.18
  That Spirit does not build up nature around us, but puts forth nature through us: there is the profound difference between nature/nation mysticism and mere biocentric immersion; there is the telling difference between the EcoNoetic Self and the merely ecological self; there is the difference between transcendence and regression.

1.08 - The Gods of the Veda - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  But in the last century a new scholarship has invaded the country, the scholarship of aggressive & victorious Europe, which for the first time denies the intimate connection and the substantial identity of the Vedas & the later Scriptures. We ourselves have made distinctions of Jnanakanda & Karmakanda, Sruti & Smriti, but we have never doubted that all these are branches of a single stock. But our new Western Pandits & authorities tell us that we are in error. All of us from ancient Yajnavalkya to the modern Vaidika have been making a huge millennial mistake. European scholarship applying for the first time the test of a correct philology to these obscure writings has corrected the mistake. It has discovered that the Vedas are of an entirely different character from the rest of our Hindu development. For our development has been Pantheistic or transcendental, philosophical, mystic, devotional, sombre, secretive, centred in the giant names of the Indian Trinity, disengaging itself from sacrifice, moving towards asceticism. The Vedas are naturalistic, realistic, ritualistic, semi-barbarous, a sacrificial worship of material Nature-powers, henotheistic at their highest, Pagan, joyous and self-indulgent. Brahma & Shiva do not exist for the Veda; Vishnu & Rudra are minor, younger & unimportant deities. Many more discoveries of a startling nature, but now familiar to the most ignorant, have been successfully imposed on our intellects. The Vedas, it seems, were not revealed to great & ancient Rishis, but composed by the priests of a small invading Aryan race of agriculturists & warriors, akin to the Greeks & Persians, who encamped, some fifteen hundred years before Christ, in the Panjab.
  With the acceptance of these modern opinions Hinduism ought by this time to have been as dead among educated men as the religion of the Greeks & Romans. It should at best have become a religio Pagana, a superstition of ignorant villagers. Itis, on the contrary, stronger & more alive, fecund & creative than it had been for the previous three centuries. To a certain extent this unexpected result may be traced to the high opinion in which even European opinion has been compelled to hold the Vedanta philosophy, the Bhagavat Gita and some of the speculationsas the Europeans think themor, as we hold, the revealed truths of the Upanishads. But although intellectually we are accustomed in obedience to Western criticism to base ourselves on the Upanishads & Gita and put aside Purana and Veda as mere mythology & mere ritual, yet in practice we live by the religion of the Puranas & Tantras even more profoundly & intimately than we live by & realise the truths of the Upanishads. In heart & soul we still worship Krishna and Kali and believe in the truth of their existence. Nevertheless this divorce between the heart & the intellect, this illicit compromise between faith & reason cannot be enduring. If Purana & Veda cannot be rehabilitated, it is yet possible that our religion driven out of the soul into the intellect may wither away into the dry intellectuality of European philosophy or the dead formality & lifeless clarity of European Theism. It behoves us therefore to test our faith by a careful examination into the meaning of Purana & Veda and into the foundation of that truth which our intellect seeks to deny [but] our living spiritual experience continues to find in their conceptions. We must discover why it is that while our intellects accept only the truth of Vedanta, our spiritual experiences confirm equally or even more powerfully the truth of Purana. A revival of Hindu intellectual faith in the totality of the spiritual aspects of our religion, whether Vedic, Vedantic, Tantric or Puranic, I believe to be an inevitable movement of the near future.
  --
  But for my own part I do not hold myself bound by European research&European theories.My scepticism of nineteenth century results goes farther than is possible to any European scepticism. The Science of comparative religion in Europe seems to me to be based on a blunder. The sun & star theory of comparative mythology with its extravagant scholastic fancies & lawless inferences carries no conviction to my reason. I find in the Aryan & Dravidian tongues, the Aryan and Dravidian races not separate & unconnected families but two branches of a single stock. The legend of the Aryan invasion & settlement in the Panjab in Vedic times is, to me, a philological myth. The naturalistic interpretation of theVedas I accept only as a transference or adhyaropa of European ideas into the Veda foreign to the mentality of the Vedic Rishis & Max Mullers discovery of Vedic henotheism as a brilliant & ingenious error. Whatever is sound & indisputable in European ideas & discoveries, I am bound to admit & shall use, but these large generalisations & assumptions ought, I think, no longer to pass current as unchallengeable truth or the final knowledge about the Vedas. My method is rather to make a tabula rasa of all previous theories European or Indian & come back to the actual text of the Veda for enlightenment, the fundamental structure & development of the old Sanscrit tongue for a standard of interpretation and the connection of thought in the hymns for a guide to their meaning. I have arrived as a result at a theory of the Vedic religion, of which this book is intended to give some initial indications.
  I put aside at the beginning the common assumption that since religion started from the fears & desires of savages a record of religion as ancient as the Vedas must necessarily contain a barbarous or semi-barbarous mythology empty of any profound or subtle spiritual & moral ideas or, if it contains them at all, that it must be only in the latest documents. We have no more right to assume that the Vedic Rishis were a race of simple & frank barbarians than to assume that they were a class of deep and acute philosophers. What they were is the thing we have to discover and we may arrive at either conclusion or neither, but we must not start from our goal or begin our argument on the basis of our conclusion. We know nothing of the history & thought of the times, we know nothing of the state of their intellectual & social culture except what we can gather from the Vedic hymns themselves. Indications from other sources may be useful as clues but the hymns are our sole authority.
  --
  We have gained, therefore, another great step in the understanding of the Veda. The figure of the mighty Indra, in his most essential quality & function, begins to appear to us as in a half-luminous silhouette full of suggestions. We have much yet to learn about him, especially his war with Vritra, his thunderbolt & his dealings with the seven rivers. But the central or root idea is fixed. The rest is the outgrowth, foliage & branchings.
  ***

1.09 - BOOK THE NINTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Thy branches hung with humid pearls appear,
  From ev'ry leaf distills a trickling tear;
  --
  Now from my branching arms this infant bear,
  Let some kind nurse supply a mother's care;
  --
  Protect your plant, nor let my branches feel
  The browzing cattle, or the piercing steel.
  --
  Yet latent life thro' her new branches reign'd,
  And long the plant a human heat retain'd.

1.09 - FAITH IN PEACE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  logical phenomenon of Reflection, the branches of his species fol-
  low an entirely different course. Instead of separating and detaching
  --
  damentally it is the divergence of the living branches, operating
  from the highest level down to the family and the individuals com-
  --
  for converging branches do not survive by eliminating each other;
  they have to unite. Everything that formerly made for war now

1.09 - Legend of Lakshmi, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  [9]: The four Vidyās, or branches of knowledge, are said to be, Yajña vidyā, knowledge or performance of religious rites; Mahā vidyā, great knowledge, the worship of the female principle, or Tāntrika worship; Guhya vidyā, knowledge of mantras, mystical prayers, and incantations; and Ātma vidyā, knowledge of soul, true wisdom.
  [10]: Or Vārttā, explained to mean the Śilpa śāstra, mechanics, sculpture, and architecture; Āyur-veda, medicine, &c.

1.09 - Saraswati and Her Consorts, #The Secret Of The Veda, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  "Thus Mahi for Indra full of the rays, overflowing in her abundance, in her nature a happy truth, becomes as if a ripe branch for the giver of the sacrifice."
  The rays in the Veda are the rays of Surya, the Sun. Are we to suppose that the goddess is a deity of the physical Light or are we to translate "go" by cow and suppose that Mahi is full of cows for the sacrificer? The psychological character of
  --
  Mahi is full of the rays of this Surya; she carries in her this illumination. Moreover she is sunr.ta, she is the word of a blissful Truth, even as it has been said of Saraswati that she is the impeller of happy truths, codayitr sunr.tanam. Finally, she is viraps, large or breaking out into abundance, a word which recalls to us that the Truth is also a Largeness, r.tam br.hat. And in another hymn, (I.22.10), she is described as varutr dhis.an.a, a widely covering or embracing Thought-power. Mahi, then, is the luminous vastness of the Truth, she represents the Largeness, br.hat, of the superconscient in us containing in itself the Truth, r.tam. She is, therefore, for the sacrificer like a branch covered with ripe fruit.
  Ila is also the word of the truth; her name has become identical in a later confusion with the idea of speech. As Saraswati is an awakener of the consciousness to right thinkings or right states of mind, cetant sumatnam, so also Ila comes to the sacrifice awakening the consciousness to knowledge, cetayant.

1.09 - SELF-KNOWLEDGE, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  The importance, the indispensable necessity, of self-knowledge has been stressed by the saints and doctors of every one of the great religious traditions. To us in the West, the most familiar voice is that of Socrates. More systematically than Socrates the Indian exponents of the Perennial Philosophy harped on the same theme. There is, for example, the Buddha, whose discourse on The Setting-Up of Mindfulness expounds (with that positively inexorable exhaustiveness characteristic of the Pali scriptures) the whole art of self-knowledge in all its branchesknowledge of ones body, ones senses, ones feelings, ones thoughts. This art of self-knowledge is practised with two aims in view. The proximate aim is that a brother, as to the body, continues so to look upon the body, that he remains ardent, self-possessed and mindful, having overcome both the hankering and dejection common in the world. And in the same way as to feelings, thoughts and ideas, he so looks upon each that he remains ardent, self-possessed and mindful, without hankering or dejection. Beyond and through this desirable psychological condition lies the final end of man, knowledge of that which underlies the individualized self. In their own vocabulary, Christian writers express the same ideas.
  A man has many skins in himself, covering the depths of his heart. Man knows so many things; he does not know himself. Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, just like an oxs or a bears, so thick and hard, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

1.09 - SKIRMISHES IN A WAY WITH THE AGE, #Twilight of the Idols, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  specialised in their particular branch, and become separated--even
  to the point of contradiction. The lyricist remained united with the
  --
  to its members themselves, have been destroyed root and branch. The
  working-man has been declared fit for military service; he has been

1.09 - Sri Aurobindo and the Big Bang, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
  of evolution, may be equally well applied to other branch
  es of science. Indeed, Sri Aurobindos writings are strewn

1.09 - Taras Ultimate Nature, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
  When a tree is uprooted, its branches wither and die. Similarly, once ignorance is totally eliminated, anger, attachment, jealousy, arrogance, fear, and
  anxiety can no longer arise because they are all rooted in ignorance. When

1.09 - The Chosen Ideal, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
  This is indeed the most poetical and forcible way in which the theory of Ishta-Nishtha has ever been put. This Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion. He must say with Hanuman in the Rmyana, "Though I know that the Lord of Shri and the Lord of Jnaki are both manifestations of the same Supreme Being, yet my all in all is the lotus-eyed Rma." Or, as was said by the sage Tulasidsa, he must say, "Take the sweetness of all, sit with all, take the name of all, say yea, yea, but keep your seat firm." Then, if the devotional aspirant is sincere, out of this little seed will come a gigantic tree like the Indian banyan, sending out branch after branch and root after root to all sides, till it covers the entire field of religion. Thus will the true devotee realise that He who was his own ideal in life is worshipped in all ideals by all sects, under all names, and through all forms.
  next chapter: 1.10 - The Methods and the Means

1.09 - The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The Sixth Circle Heresiarchs., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
  The branches rends, beats down, and bears away;
  Right onward, laden with dust, it goes superb,

1.09 - The Worship of Trees, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  whatever is forcibly to dispossess a soul, will not break a branch
  of a tree, "as they will not break the arm of an innocent person."
  --
  or ninety feet without sending out a branch, bears a fruit of the
  most delicious flavour and the most disgusting stench. The Malays
  --
  down if it does not. To this the man among the branches replies on
  behalf of the tree that it will bear abundantly. Odd as this mode of
  --
  preference, in tall and stately trees with great spreading branches.
  When the wind rustles the leaves, the natives fancy it is the voice
  --
  die on the spot. Their fallen branches cumber the ground, and no one
  may remove them unless he has first asked leave of the spirit of the
  --
  lighting on its branches, and can cause the death of all the
  children in a house by perching on one of the posts that support it.
  --
  woodl and character being denoted by a branch or some equally obvious
  symbol. But this change of shape does not affect the essential
  --
  peasants stick a leafy branch in each furrow of their corn-fields,
  believing that this will ensure an abundant crop. The same idea
  --
  is a large branch or a whole tree, which is decked with ears of
  corn, brought home on the last waggon from the harvest-field, and
  --
  remains for a year. Mannhardt has proved that this branch or tree
  embodies the tree-spirit conceived as the spirit of vegetation in
  --
  from its branches. In Europe the May-tree or May-pole is apparently
  supposed to possess similar powers over both women and cattle. Thus
  --
  of cattle. So they cut down a young pear-tree in the forest, branch
  it, and carry it home, where it is adored as a divinity. Almost

11.01 - The Eternal Day The Souls Choice and the Supreme Consummation, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Past branches fragrant with a sigh of flowers
  Hurrying through sweetnesses with revel leaps;
  --
  And lingered under branches dropping myrrh;
  I too have revelled in the fields of light

11.07 - The Labours of the Gods: The five Purifications, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Beyond is the fifth element, Vyom, the sphere overhead the Vast and the Infinite. That, of course, is the original source and status of the human being, where he gathers up all the elements in one indivisible perfect consciousness. That is the root of the Divine Tree of Existence which, as the Vedas say dwells up there, spreading downward all its branches, namely the other elements of the being.
   Such then are the five operations of the divine alchemy with regard to the purification of the human vessel, somewhat in the manner of the ancients while treating the base metal; they are (I) burning, (2) washing, (3) brightening up or warming up or enlivening, (4) articulating i.e. giving an expression or a form of beauty and truth, and (5) setting the whole within or in reference to the frame of the Infinite and the Impersonal.

1.10 - BOOK THE TENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Here, tall Chaonian oaks their branches spread,
  While weeping poplars there erect their head.
  --
  His beamy head, with branches high display'd,
  Afforded to itself an ample shade;
  --
  A horrid bush with bristled branches sprung,
  Which stiffning by degrees, its stem extends,
  --
  Gold are the leafs, the crackling branches gold.
  It chanc'd, three apples in my hand I bore,

1.10 - Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  rejoicings; or the people cut branches in the woods, and fasten them
  on every house. The intention of these customs is to bring home to
  --
  and the blowing of horns into the woods, where they broke branches
  and adorned them with nosegays and crowns of flowers. This done,
  they returned about sunrise and fastened the flower-decked branches
  over the doors and windows of their houses. At Abingdon in Berkshire
  --
  drink; they planted a small tree or a branch of a tree. Near Saverne
  in Alsace bands of people go about carrying May-trees. Amongst them
  --
  a straight and tall sprucepine tree, stripped of its branches. "At
  times hoops and at others pieces of wood, placed crosswise, are
  --
  in the morning they return, bringing with them birch and branches of
  trees, to deck their assemblies withall. And no mervaile, for there
  --
  of its branches and leaves, nothing but the crown being left, on
  which were displayed, in addition to many-coloured ribbons and
  --
  with huge green branches. The girls dance round it, and at the same
  time a lad wrapt in leaves and called Father May is led about. In
  --
  and being mounted on horseback with a green branch in his hand he is
  led back into the village. At the village-well a halt is called and
  --
  all secrecy, lest others should forestall them. Leafy branches are
  twined round two hoops, one of which rests on the shoulders of the
  --
  encased in a pyramid of poplar branches, the top of which was
  adorned with a royal crown of branches and flowers. He rode on
  horseback with the leafy pyramid over him, so that its lower end
  --
  crown was handed to the Mayor, and the branches were stuck in the
  flax fields in order to make the flax grow tall. In this last trait
  --
  (Bohemia) a conical hut of green branches, without any door, is
  erected at Whitsuntide in the midst of the village. To this hut
  --
  with green branches and flowers. While the village dames and girls
  are being criticised at the arbour, a frog is secretly pinched and
  --
  or band round a stately birch, twist its lower branches into a
  wreath, and kiss each other in pairs through the wreath. The girls

1.10 - THE FORMATION OF THE NOOSPHERE, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  classification what an immense proliferation there is of branches
  and offshoots, each endowed with a sort of evolutionary potential,

1.10 - THE MASTER WITH THE BRAHMO DEVOTEES (II), #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  The following Sunday a kirtan was arranged at the house of Ram, one of the Master's householder devotees. Sri Ramakrishna graced the occasion with his presence. The musicians sang about Radha's pangs at her separation from Krishna: Radha said to her friends: "I have loved to see Krishna from my childhood. My finger-nails are worn off from counting the days on them till I shall see Him. Once He gave me a garland. Look, it has withered, but I have not yet thrown it away. Alas! Where has the Moon of Krishna risen now? Has that Moon gone away from my firmament, afraid of the Rahu of my pique? Alas! Shall I ever see Krishna again? O my beloved Krishna, I have never been able to look at You to my heart's complete satisfaction. I have only one pair of eyes; they blink and so hinder my vision. And further, on account of streams of tears I could not see enough of my Beloved. The peacock feather on the crown of His head shines like arrested lightning. The peacocks, seeing Krishna's dark-cloud complexion, would dance in joy, spreading their tails. O friends, I shall not be able to keep my life-breath. After my death, place my body on a branch of the dark tamala tree and inscribe on my body Krishna's sweet name."
  The Master said: "God and His name are identical; that is the reason Radha said that.
  --
  "If people feel sincere longing, they will find that all paths lead to God. But one should have nishtha, single-minded devotion. It is also described as chaste and unswerving devotion to God. It is like a tree with only one trunk shooting straight up. Promiscuous devotion is like a tree with five branches.
  Such was the single-minded devotion of the gopis to Krishna that they didn't care to look at anyone but the Krishna they had seen at Vrindvan-the Shepherd Krishna, bedecked with a garl and of yellow wild-flowers and wearing a peacock feather on His crest. At the sight of Krishna at Mathura with a turban on His head and dressed in royal robes, the gopis pulled down their veils. They would not look at His face. 'Who is this man?' they said. 'Should we violate our chaste love for Krishna by talking to him?'

1.10 - The Secret of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Is this, then, the last word about the Veda? Or, and this is the idea I write to suggest, is it not rather the culmination of a long increasing & ever progressing error? The theory this book is written to enunciate & support is simply this, that our forefa thers of early Vedantic times understood the Veda, to which they were after all much nearer than ourselves, far better than Sayana, far better than Roth & Max Muller, that they were, to a great extent, in possession of the real truth about the Veda, that that truth was indeed a deep spiritual truth, karmakanda as well as jnanakanda of the Veda contains an ancient knowledge, a profound, complex & well-ordered psychology & philosophy, strange indeed to our modern conception, expressed indeed in language still stranger & remoter from our modern use of language, but not therefore either untrue or unintelligible, and that this knowledge is the real foundation of our later religious developments, & Veda, not only by historical continuity, but in real truth & substance is the parent & bedrock of all later Hinduism, of Vedanta, Sankhya, Nyaya, Yoga, of Vaishnavism & Shaivism&Shaktism, of Tantra&Purana, even, in a remoter fashion, of Buddhism & the later unorthodox religions. From this quarry all have hewn their materials or from this far-off source drawn unknowingly their waters; from some hidden seed in the Veda they have burgeoned into their wealth of branchings & foliage. The ritualism of Sayana is an error based on a false preconception popularised by the Buddhists & streng thened by the writers of the Darshanas,on the theory that the karma of the Veda was only an outward ritual & ceremony; the naturalism of the modern scholars is an error based on a false preconception encouraged by the previous misconceptions of Sayana,on the theory of the Vedas [as] not only an ancient but a primitive document, the production of semi-barbarians. The Vedantic writers of the Upanishads had alone the real key to the secret of the Vedas; not indeed that they possessed the full knowledge of a dialect even then too ancient to be well understood, but they had the knowledge of the Vedic Rishis, possessed their psychology, & many of their general ideas, even many of their particular terms & symbols. That key, less & less available to their successors owing to the difficulty of the knowledge itself & of the language in which it was couched and to the immense growth of outward ritualism, was finally lost to the schools in the great debacle of Vedism induced by the intellectual revolutions of the centuries which immediately preceded the Christian era.
  It is therefore a Vedantic or even what would nowadays be termed a theosophic interpretation of the Veda which in this book I propose to establish. My suggestion is that the gods of the Rigveda were indeed, as the European scholars have seen, masters of the Nature-Powers, but not, as they erroneously theorise, either exclusively or even mainly masters of the visible & physical Nature-Powers. They presided over and in their nature & movement were also & more predominantly mental Nature-Powers, vital Nature-Powers, even supra-mental Nature-Powers. The religion of the Vedic Rishis I suppose on this hypothesis to have been a sort of practical & concrete Brahmavada founded on the three principles of complex existence, isotheism of the gods and parallelism of their functions on all the planes of that complex existence; the secret of their ideas, language & ritual I suppose to rest in an elaborate habit of symbolism & double meaning which tends to phrase & typify all mental phenomena in physical and concrete figures. While the European scholars suppose the Rishis to have been simple-minded barbarians capable only of a gross & obvious personification of forces, only of a confused, barbarous and primitive system of astronomical allegories and animistic metaphors, I suppose them to have been men of daring and observant minds, using a bold and vigorous if sometimes fanciful system of images to express an elaborate practical psychology and self-observation in which what we moderns regard as abstract experiences & ideas were rather perceived with the vividness of physical experiences & images & so expressed in the picturesque terms of a great primitive philosophy. Their outward sacrifice & ritual I suppose to have been partly the symbols & partly the means of material expression for certain psychological processes, the first foundations of our Hindu system of Yoga, by which they believed themselves able to attain inward & outward mastery, knowledge, joy and extended life & being.
  --
  We should realise that these so-called Sciences of Comparative Philology and Comparative Mythology on which the European interpretation of Veda is founded are not true Sciences at all. They are, rather, if Sciences at all, then pseudo-Sciences. All the European mental sciences, not excluding Psychology, though that is now proceeding within certain narrow limits by a sounder method, belong to a doubtful class of branches of research which have absorbed the outward method of Science, without its inward spirit. The true scientists in Germany, the home of both Science & Philology, accustomed to sound methods, certain results, patient inquiry, slow generalisations, have nothing but contempt for the methods of Philology, its patchiness, its haste, its guesswork, and profess no confidence in its results; the word Philologe is even, in their mouths, a slighting & discourteous expression. This contempt, itself no doubt excessive, is practically admitted to be just by the great French thinker, Renan, who spent the best part of his life in philological & kindred researches, when he described apologetically his favourite pursuits as petty conjectural sciences. Now, a Science that is conjectural, a Science that proceeds not by fixed laws and certain methods, but by ingenious inference & conjecture, & this is in truth the nature of Comparative Philology & Comparative Mythology,is no science at all; it is a branch of research, a field of inquiry & conjecture in which useful discoveries may be made; it may even contain in itself the germs of a future science, but it is not yet itself worthy of that name & its results have no right to cloak themselves falsely in the robe of authority which belongs only to the results of the true Sciences. So long as a science is conjectural, its results are also conjectural, can at any moment be challenged and ought at all times even in its most brilliant & confident results to be carefully and sceptically scrutinised.
  Among such branches of research which can even now be used in spite of new & hostile conclusions as a sort of side support to the modern theory of the Veda stand in a curious twilit corner of their own the researches of the ethnologists. There is no more glaring instance of the conjectural and unsubstantial nature of these pseudo-Sciences than the results of Ethnology which yet claims to deduce its results from fixed and certain physical tests and data. We find the philological discovery of the Aryan invasion supported by the conclusions of ethnologists like Sir Herbert Risley, who make an ethnological map of India coloured in with all shades of mixed raciality, Dravidian,Scytho-Dravidian, Mongolo-Dravidian, Scytho-Aryan. More modern schools of ethnology assert positively on the strength of [the] same laws & the same tests that there is but one homogeneous Indo-Afghan race inhabiting the whole peninsula from theHimalayas to Cape Comorin. What are we to think of a science of which the tests are so pliant and the primary results so irreconcilable? Or how, if the more modern theory is correct, if a distinct homogeneous race inhabits India, can we fail to doubt strongly as a philological myth the whole story of the Aryan invasion & colonisation of Northern India, which has been so long one of the most successful & loudly proclaimed results of the new philology? As a result perhaps of these later conclusions we find a tendency even in philological scholarship towards the rise of new theories which dispute the whole legend of an Aryan invasion, assert an indigenous or even a southern origin for the peoples of the Vedic times and suppose Aryanism to have been a cult and not a racial distinction. These new theories destroy all fixed confidence in the old without themselves revealing any surer foundations for their own guesses; both start from conjectural philology & end in an imaginatively conjectural nation-building or culture-building. It is exceedingly doubtful whether the Vedic terms Aryan & unAryan at all refer to racial or cultural differences; they may have an entirely different and wholly religious & spiritual significance & refer to the good and evil powers & mortals influenced by them. If this prove to be the truth, and the close contiguity & probable historical connection between the Vedic Indians & the Zoroastrian Persians gives it a great likelihood, then the whole elaborate edifice built up by the scholars of an Aryan invasion and an Aryan culture begins to totter & seek the ground, there to lie in the dust amid the wrecks of other once confident beliefs and triumphant errors.
  The substance of modern philological discovery about the Vedas consists, first, in the picture of an Aryan civilisation introduced by northern invaders and, secondly, in the interpretation of the Vedic religion as a worship of Nature-powers & Vedic myths as allegorical legends of sun & moon & star & the visible phenomena of Nature. The latter generalisation rests partly on new philological renderings of Vedic words, partly on the Science of Comparative Mythology. The method of this Science can be judged from one or two examples. The Greek story of the demigod Heracles is supposed to be an evident sun myth. The two scientific proofs offered for this discovery are first that Hercules performed twelve labours and the solar year is divided into twelve months and, secondly, that Hercules burnt himself on a pyre on Mount Oeta and the sun also sets in a glory of flame behind the mountains. Such proofs seem hardly substantial enough for so strong a conclusion. By the same reasoning one could prove the emperor Napoleon a sun myth, because he was beaten & shorn of his glory by the forces of winter and because his brilliant career set in the western ocean and he passed there a long night of captivity. With the same light confidence the siege of Troy is turned by the scholars into a sun myth because the name of the Greek Helena, sister of the two Greek Aswins, Castor & Pollux, is philologically identical with the Vedic Sarama and that of her abductor Paris is not so very different from the Vedic Pani. It may be noted that in the Vedic story Sarama is not the sister of the Aswins and is not abducted by the Panis and that there is no other resemblance between the Vedic legend & the Greek tradition. So by more recent speculation even Yudhishthira and his brothers and the famous dog of theMahabharat are raised into the skies & vanish in a starry apotheosis,one knows not well upon what grounds except that sometimes the Dog Star rages in heaven. It is evident that these combinations are merely an ingenious play of fancy & prove absolutely nothing. Hercules may be the Sun but it is not proved. Helen & Paris may be Sarama & one of the Panis, but itis not proved. Yudhishthira & his brothers may be an astronomical myth, but it is not proved. For the rest, the unsubstantiality & rash presumption of the Sun myth theory has not failed to give rise in Europe to a hostile school of Comparative Mythologists who adopt other methods & seek the origins of early religious legend & tradition in a more careful and flexible study of the mentality, customs, traditions & symbolisms of primitive races. The theory of Vedic Nature-worship is better founded than these astronomical fancies. Agni is plainly the God of Fire, Surya of the Sun, Usha of the Dawn, Vayu of the Wind; Indra for Sayana is obviously the god of rain; Varuna seems to be the sky, the Greek Ouranos,et cetera. But when we have accepted these identities, the question of Vedic interpretation & the sense of Vedic worship is not settled. In the Greek religion Apollo was the god of the sun, but he was also the god of poetry & prophecy; Athene is identified with Ahana, a Vedic name of the Dawn, but for the Greeks she is the goddess of purity & wisdom; Artemis is the divinity of the moon, but also the goddess of free life & of chastity. It is therefore evident that in early Greek religion, previous to the historic or even the literary period, at an epoch therefore that might conceivably correspond with the Vedic period, many of the deities of the Greek heavens had a double character, the aspect of physical Nature-powers and the aspect of moral Nature-powers. The indications, therefore,for they are not proofs,even of Comparative Mythology would justify us in inquiring whether a similar double character did not attach to the Vedic gods in the Vedic hymns.
  --
  If this hypothesis were wholly at variance with the facts known to the students of Comparative Religion or the interpretation [on] which it is based not clearly justifiable by sound principles of Philology, it would be an act of gross presumption in the present state of our knowledge to advance it without a preliminary examination of the present results held as proved by modern Philology & by the Study of Comparative Religion. But my hypothesis is entirely consistent with the facts of religious history in this & other countries, entirely reconcilable with a sound method of Comparative Religion, entirely baseable on a strict and rational use of Philology. I have criticised & characterised these branches of research as pseudo-Sciences. But I do not for a moment intend to suggest that their results are to be entirely scouted or that they have not done a great work for the advancement of knowledge. Comparative Philology, for instance, has got rid of a great mass of preexistent rubbish and unsoundness and suggested partly the true scientific method of Philological research, though it seems to me that overingenuity, haste & impatience in following up exclusively certain insufficient clues have prevented an excellent beginning from being rightly & fruitfully pursued. If I cannot attach any real value to the Science of Comparative Mythology, yet the study,not the Science, for we have not yet either the materials or the equipment for a true Science,the comparative Study of Religions & of religious myths & ancient traditions as a subordinate part of that study is of the utmost use & importance.
  The researches of Comparative Religion although they cannot yet constitute a science, should at least follow as far as possible the lines & methods adopted by the physical Sciences, especially of Biology; they should therefore consist mainly, apart from the mere collection of data, first, in the tracing of existing or later forms to their earlier history & origins, if possible, to their embryonic origins and, secondly, in the careful comparison both of the origins & later history of similar forms in different environments. In India [incomplete]

11.14 - Our Finest Hour, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   But may we not pause a little and consider whether that is the only choice, or the best choice the rush for destruction? The whole past construction that now stands against man, against his farther progress, it is agreed, has to be broken down, thrown aside, but in what way? By mere physical force, brute force, by pushing and dashing and ramming from outsidewell, perhaps the thing can be done, but destruction of form is not elimination of the life or spirit behind it. The past still in its present form continues because it maintains its own inner life and spirit. So long as that inner spirit is there you may break one form but another or many others will appear inspired by the same spirit. That is why the French proverb says: "The more it changes, the more it remains the same;"1 For the truth is that destruction is not the aim, not even the destruction of what should be destroyed, the aim is the creation of a new spirit, change of the inner nature. Our attention should be focussed not on the outward form but on the inner norm. If there is a new norm within and a change of nature, the outer change of form will follow automatically. The old leaves will fall off, the dead branches break away and new leaves and flowers appear with a new sap flowing in. The shell breaks off automatically when the living creature within grows and is mature enough to come out.
   On the contrary, the prison need not be altogether a prison, it may be an occasion, an opportunity for the human consciousness to make a break-through to create a new dimension. Here is then our immediate workto conquer inner domains, the inner truths: for all truths are found first within the consciousness, established there before they become facts. So then let us harness our power and prowess, our aspiration and sincerity, all our life energy to the labour of the inner conquest. Let us stop awhile from the temptation and the urge for destruction and turn it round towards a higher inner adventure that of construction. Yes, the truth that we want to see established in the outer world, let us establish it in ourselves, in each one of us, in our consciousness, in our impulses and activities. We always wanted liberty and equality and fraternity in the world at large, the ideal has not been realised because we did not care to realise it in the consciousness and life of each one of us. In the collective life of mankind that truth will alone become a fact which is a fact in the inner existence and consciousness of every human being.

11.15 - Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The new world has to be based on new foundations. The old world was built from outside with superficial cheap elements that lower Nature offers easily and profusely. It is body's needs, vital hungers assembled and arranged according to a plan supplied by mind's ideas and notions under the directive and compulsion of the ego, the sense or consciousness of one's separate individual existence as against others. The new world will start from the soul, the luminous divine element in man which is one with all and grow from within outward. It is as if the foundations are laid not below, but above the tree of existence would branch out not from below upwards, but from above downward, in the image given by the ancient Rishis of India. The individual will therefore be not primarily a body housing secondaryor as it is sometimes called epiphenomenalmovements such as those of the mind and the vital limited and largely conditioned by it. The individual will primarily be a consciousness, a focus of energy-consciousness existing and acting in union and communion with all other similar individual foci, for all form one single undivided entity. The body and life and mind are moulded in the substance and rhythm of that sovereign consciousness. The hard egoism or self-centred ness, the gross animality that seem to be the very constitution of the human individual are dissolved into the soul's radiant urges.
   The individual can be and is to be fulfilled in and through his soul the presiding consciousness that has at its disposal the mind, the vital and the body as its instruments and means of expression, but which till now, because of an evolutionary necessity of growth and development, acted more as an obstruction or a veil than as an aid or a channel. When in the new consciousness the individual attains its soul-status, in other words, its divinity, then a reshaping and recasting of the lower limbs becomes possible and even inevitable. The soul-status means freedom, harmony, purity, knowledge, power, delight and immortality, absolute and inalienable.

1.11 - BOOK THE ELEVENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Hurl prickly branches sliver'd from the trees.
  And, lest their passion shou'd be unsupply'd,
  --
  Their branching arms shoot up delightful shades;
  At once they seem, and are, a real grove,
  --
  Down from a lowly branch a twig he drew,
  The twig strait glitter'd with a golden hue:
  --
  A branchy tree high in the air she grew;
  About its bark his nimble arms he threw:

1.11 - FAITH IN MAN, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  the different branches of religion. We are looking for something
  that will draw us together, below or above the level of that which

1.11 - Oneness, #Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  it was Vasudeva130 who surrounded me. I walked under the branches of the tree in front of my cell, but it was not the tree, I knew it was Vasudeva, it was Sri Krishna131 whom I saw standing there and holding over me his shade. I looked at the bars of my cell, the very 128
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1.11 - The Three Purushas, #Essays In Philosophy And Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  In the oceanic stir and change of universal Nature the soul or Purusha is the standing-point, stable, unmoving, unchanging, eternal,nitya sarvagata sthur acaloya santana. In the whole, the Purusha or soul is one,there is One Spirit which supports the stir of the Universe, not many. In the individual the One Purusha has three stages of personality; He is One, but triple, trivt. The Upanishads speak of two birds on one tree, of which one eats the fruit of the tree, the other, seated on a higher branch, does not eat but watches its fellow; one is a or lord of itself, the other is ana, not lord of itself, and it is when the eater looks up and perceives the greatness of the watcher and fills himself with it that grief, death, subjection,in one word my, ignorance and illusion, ceases to touch him. There are two unborn who are male and one unborn who is female; she is the tree with its sweet and bitter fruit, the two are the birds. One of the unborn enjoys her sweetness, the other has put it away from him. These are the two Purushas, the akara, or immutable spirit, and the kara, or apparently mutable, and the tree or woman is Prakriti, universal Energy which the Europeans call Nature. The kara purua is the soul in Nature and enjoying Nature, the akara purua is the soul above Nature and watching her. But there is One who is not seated on the tree but occupies and possesses it, who is not only lord of Himself, but lord of all that is: He is higher than the kara, higher than the akara, He is Purushottama, the Soul one with God, with the All.
  These three Purushas are described in the fifteenth chapter of the Gita. There are two Purushas in the world, the akara and the kara,the kara is all creatures, the akara is called kastha, the one on the summit. There is another Purusha, the highest (uttama), called also the Paramatma or Supreme Spirit, who enters into the three worlds, (the worlds of suupti, svapna, jgrat, otherwise the causal, mental and physical planes of existence), and sustains them as their imperishable lord. And in the thirteenth chapter, while drawing the distinction between the lower Purusha and the higher, Sri Krishna defines more minutely the relations of God and the individual soul to Nature. Prakriti is the basic source of cause, effect and agency; the Purusha, of the sense of enjoyment of happiness and grief; for it is the soul in Nature (Purusha in Prakriti) that enjoys the threefold workings of things caused by Nature, (the play of conservation, creation and destruction; reception, reaction and resistance; illumination, misconception and obscuration; calm, work and inertia; all being different manifestations of three fundamental forces called the gunas or essential properties of Prakriti), and it is the attachment of the soul to the gunas that is the cause of births in bodies good and evil. The highest Purusha in this body is the one who watches, who sanctions, who enjoys, who upholds, who is the mighty Lord and the Supreme Soul.

1.11 - WITH THE DEVOTEES AT DAKSHINEWAR, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  Sometimes I feel the rising of the spiritual current inside me, as though it were the creeping of an ant. Sometimes it feels like the movement of a monkey jumping from one branch to another. Again, sometimes it feels like a fish swimming in water. Only he who experiences it knows what it is like. In samadhi one forgets the world. When the mind comes down a little, I say to the Divine Mother: 'Mother, please cure me of this. I want to talk to people.'
  "None but the Isvarakotis can return to the plane of relative consciousness after attaining samadhi. Some ordinary men attain samadhi through spiritual discipline; but they do not come back. But when God Himself is born as a man, as an Incarnation, holding in His hand the key to others' liberation, then for the welfare of humanity the Incarnation returns from samadhi to consciousness of the world."

1.12 - BOOK THE TWELFTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  The branches in his curl'd embraces held:
  But, as in spires he stood, he turn'd to stone:
  --
  The votive horns of a stag's branching head:
  At Grineus these he throws; so just they fly,

1.12 - ON THE FLIES OF THE MARKETPLACE, #Thus Spoke Zarathustra, #Friedrich Nietzsche, #Philosophy
  tree that you love with its wide branches: silently
  listening, it hangs over the sea.

1.13 - BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, #Metamorphoses, #Ovid, #Poetry
  Than the bald branches of a leafless tree?
  Foul is the steed without a flowing mane:

1.13 - On despondency., #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  1. As we have already frequently said, thiswe mean despondencyis very often one of the branches of talkativeness, and its first child. And so we have given it its appropriate place in this chain of vices.
  2. Despondency is a slackness of soul, a weakening of the mind, neglect of asceticism, hatred of the vow made. It is the blessing of worldlings. It accuses God of being merciless and without love for men. It is being languid in singing psalms, weak in prayer, stubbornly bent on service, resolute in manual labour, indifferent in obedience.

1.13 - SALVATION, DELIVERANCE, ENLIGHTENMENT, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  In the theologies of the various religions, salvation is also regarded as a deliverance out of folly, evil and misery into happiness, goodness and wisdom. But political and economic means are held to be subsidiary to the cultivation of personal holiness, to the acquiring of personal merit and to the maintenance of personal faith in some divine principle or person having power, in one way or another, to forgive and sanctify the individual soul. Moreover the end to be achieved is not regarded as existing in some Utopian future period, beginning, say, in the twenty-second century or perhaps even a little earlier, if our favourite politicians remain in power and make the right laws; the end exists in heaven. This last phrase has two very different meanings. For what is probably the majority of those who profess the great historical religions, it signifies and has always signified a happy posthumous condition of indefinite personal survival, conceived of as a reward for good behaviour and correct belief and a compensation for the miseries inseparable from life in a body. But for those who, within the various religious traditions, have accepted the Perennial Philosophy as a theory and have done their best to live it out in practice, heaven is something else. They aspire to be delivered out of separate selfhood in time and into eternity as realized in the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground. Since the Ground can and ought to be unitively known in the present life (whose ultimate end and purpose is nothing but this knowledge), heaven is not an exclusively posthumous condition. He only is completely saved who is delivered here and now. As to the means to salvation, these are simultaneously ethical, intellectual and spiritual and have been summed up with admirable clarity and economy in the Buddhas Eightfold Path. Complete deliverance is conditional on the following: first, Right Belief in the all too obvious truth that the cause of pain and evil is craving for separative, ego-centred existence, with its corollary that there can be no deliverance from evil, whether personal or collective, except by getting rid of such craving and the obsession of I, me, mine"; second, Right Will, the will to deliver oneself and others; third, Right Speech, directed by compassion and charity towards all sentient beings; fourth, Right Action, with the aim of creating and maintaining peace and good will; fifth, Right Means of Livelihood, or the choice only of such professions as are not harmful, in their exercise, to any human being or, if possible, any living creature; sixth, Right Effort towards Self-control; seventh, Right Attention or Recollectedness, to be practised in all the circumstances of life, so that we may never do evil by mere thoughtlessness, because we know not what we do"; and, eighth, Right Contemplation, the unitive knowledge of the Ground, to which recollectedness and the ethical self-naughting prescribed in the first six branches of the Path give access. Such then are the means which it is within the power of the human being to employ in order to achieve mans final end and be saved. Of the means which are employed by the divine Ground for helping human beings to reach their goal, the Buddha of the Pali scriptures (a teacher whose dislike of footless questions is no less intense than that of the severest experimental physicist of the twentieth century) declines to speak. All he is prepared to talk about is sorrow and the ending of sorrow the huge brute fact of pain and evil and the other, no less empirical fact that there is a method, by which the individual can free himself from evil and do something to diminish the sum of evil in the world around him. It is only in Mahayana Buddhism that the mysteries of grace are discussed with anything like the fulness of treatment accorded to the subject in the speculations of Hindu and especially Christian theology. The primitive, Hinayana teaching on deliverance is simply an elaboration of the Buddhas last recorded words: Decay is inherent in all component things. Work out your own salvation with diligence. As in the well-known passage quoted below, all the stress is upon personal effort.
  Therefore, Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, shall not look for refuge to anyone beside themselves it is they who shall reach the very topmost Height. But they must be anxious to learn.

1.13 - THE MASTER AND M., #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  MASTER: "Yes, I visited the Goddess. She is worshipped by one of the branches of the Mallick family of Calcutta. This branch of the family is now in straitened circumstances, and the house they live in is dilapidated. The walls and floor are spotted with moss and pigeon-droppings, and the cement and plaster are crumbling. But other branches of the Mallick family are well off. This branch has no signs of prosperity. (To M.) Well, what does that signify?"
  M. remained silent.

1.13 - The Wood of Thorns. The Harpies. The Violent against themselves. Suicides. Pier della Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea., #The Divine Comedy, #Dante Alighieri, #Christianity
  Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled,
  Not apple-trees were there, but thorns with poison.
  --
  And plucked a branchlet off from a great thorn;
  And the trunk cried, "Why dost thou mangle me?"
  --
  Who hears the crashing of the beasts and branches;
  And two behold! upon our left-hand side,

1.14 - INSTRUCTION TO VAISHNAVS AND BRHMOS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "It is narrated in the Bhagavata that the Avadhuta had twenty-four gurus, one of whom was a kite. In a certain place the fishermen were catching fish. A kite swooped down and snatched a fish. At the sight of the fish, about a thousand crows chased the kite and made a great noise with their cawing. Whichever way the kite flew with the fish, the crows followed it. The kite flew to the south and the crows followed it there. The kite flew to the north and still the crows followed after it. The kite went east and west, but with the same result. As the kite began to fly about in confusion, lo, the fish dropped from its mouth. The crows at once let the kite alone and flew after the fish. Thus relieved of its worries, the kite sat on the branch of a tree and thought: 'That wretched fish was at the root of all my troubles. I have now got rid of it and therefore I am at peace.'
  "The Avadhuta learnt this lesson from the kite, that as long as a man has the fish, that is, worldly desires, he must perform actions and consequently suffer from worry, anxiety, and restlessness. No sooner does he renounce these desires than his activities fall away and he enjoys peace of soul.

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--- Overview of noun branch

The noun branch has 6 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
                    
1. (19) branch, subdivision, arm ::: (a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages")
2. (15) branch ::: (a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant)
3. (5) branch, leg, ramification ::: (a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches")
4. outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset ::: (a natural consequence of development)
5. branch ::: (a stream or river connected to a larger one)
6. arm, branch, limb ::: (any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer")

--- Overview of verb branch

The verb branch has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
                  
1. ramify, branch ::: (grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large")
2. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate ::: (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks")


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun branch

6 senses of branch                          

Sense 1
branch, subdivision, arm
   => division
     => administrative unit, administrative body
       => unit, social unit
         => organization, organisation
           => social group
             => group, grouping
               => abstraction, abstract entity
                 => entity

Sense 2
branch
   => stalk, stem
     => plant organ
       => plant part, plant structure
         => natural object
           => whole, unit
             => object, physical object
               => physical entity
                 => entity

Sense 3
branch, leg, ramification
   => subfigure
     => figure
       => shape, form
         => attribute
           => abstraction, abstract entity
             => entity

Sense 4
outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset
   => consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
     => phenomenon
       => process, physical process
         => physical entity
           => entity

Sense 5
branch
   => stream, watercourse
     => body of water, water
       => thing
         => physical entity
           => entity

Sense 6
arm, branch, limb
   => projection
     => structure, construction
       => artifact, artefact
         => whole, unit
           => object, physical object
             => physical entity
               => entity


--- Hyponyms of noun branch

4 of 6 senses of branch                        

Sense 1
branch, subdivision, arm
   => post office, local post office
   => executive branch, Executive Office of the President
   => legislative branch
   => judicial branch

Sense 2
branch
   => deadwood
   => limb, tree branch
   => branchlet, twig, sprig

Sense 3
branch, leg, ramification
   => bifurcation
   => brachium
   => fork, crotch

Sense 5
branch
   => billabong
   => distributary
   => feeder, tributary, confluent, affluent


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun branch

6 senses of branch                          

Sense 1
branch, subdivision, arm
   => division

Sense 2
branch
   => stalk, stem

Sense 3
branch, leg, ramification
   => subfigure

Sense 4
outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset
   => consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot

Sense 5
branch
   => stream, watercourse

Sense 6
arm, branch, limb
   => projection




--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun branch

6 senses of branch                          

Sense 1
branch, subdivision, arm
  -> division
   => department, section
   => branch, subdivision, arm

Sense 2
branch
  -> stalk, stem
   => gynophore
   => carpophore
   => cornstalk, corn stalk
   => filament
   => funicle, funiculus
   => petiolule
   => cane
   => sporangiophore
   => cutting, slip
   => tuber
   => rhizome, rootstock, rootstalk
   => axis
   => caudex
   => beanstalk
   => cladode, cladophyll, phylloclad, phylloclade
   => stock, caudex
   => stipe
   => scape, flower stalk
   => petiole, leafstalk
   => bulb
   => corm
   => branch
   => culm
   => haulm, halm
   => trunk, tree trunk, bole

Sense 3
branch, leg, ramification
  -> subfigure
   => flank
   => hemisphere
   => facet
   => branch, leg, ramification

Sense 4
outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset
  -> consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
   => offspring, materialization, materialisation
   => aftereffect
   => aftermath, wake, backwash
   => bandwagon effect
   => brisance
   => butterfly effect
   => by-product, byproduct
   => change
   => coattails effect
   => Coriolis effect
   => dent
   => domino effect
   => harvest
   => impact, wallop
   => influence
   => knock-on effect
   => outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset
   => product
   => placebo effect
   => position effect
   => repercussion, reverberation
   => response
   => side effect, fallout
   => spillover

Sense 5
branch
  -> stream, watercourse
   => branch
   => brook, creek
   => headstream
   => river
   => rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet
   => tidal river, tidewater river, tidal stream, tidewater stream

Sense 6
arm, branch, limb
  -> projection
   => arm, branch, limb
   => brim
   => burr
   => cleat
   => cornice
   => drip, drip mold, drip mould
   => flange, rim
   => fluke, flue
   => head
   => knob, boss
   => lobe
   => lug
   => overhang
   => prong
   => spike
   => tenon
   => tooth
   => tooth




--- Grep of noun branch
branch
branch line
branch water
branched chain
branched chain ketoaciduria
branchia
branchial arch
branchial cleft
branching
branchiobdella
branchiobdellidae
branchiopod
branchiopod crustacean
branchiopoda
branchiopodan
branchiostegidae
branchiostomidae
branchiura
branchlet
dibranch
elasmobranch
executive branch
james branch cabell
judicial branch
lamellibranch
legislative branch
nudibranch
olive branch
special branch
tree branch



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Wikipedia - Central Vanuatu languages -- Subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Cephalodiscida -- Order in the class Pterobranchia in the phylum Hemichordata
Wikipedia - Cephalodiscus nusplingensis -- Species of hemichordate in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Cephalodiscus planitectus -- Species of hemichordate in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Cephalodiscus -- Genus of hemichordates in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Cerata -- Anatomical structures found in nudibranch sea slugs
Wikipedia - Chadian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Chad's military
Wikipedia - Chanel Branch -- American politician
Wikipedia - Chapel Branch (Lewes Creek tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Chapman Branch Library -- public library branch in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Wikipedia - Charcuterie -- Branch of cooking of prepared meat products, primarily from pork
Wikipedia - Chemical engineering -- Branch of engineering
Wikipedia - Chilean Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Chile's armed forces
Wikipedia - Chili Line -- Narrow-gauge branch of the Denver and Rio Grand Western Railroad
Wikipedia - Christian apologetics -- Branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity against objections
Wikipedia - Christian eschatology -- |Branch of study within Christian theology
Wikipedia - Christopher Branch (filmmaker) -- British film maker
Wikipedia - Cirencester branch line -- Single-track branch railway in Gloucestershire, England
Wikipedia - City Road Goods Branch -- Disused railway station in West Yorkshire, England
Wikipedia - City Terminal Zone -- collection of Long Island Rail Road branches
Wikipedia - Civil Guard (Spain) -- Gendarmerie branch of Spain's armed forces
Wikipedia - Civil Rights Commission (Puerto Rico) -- Entity within the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Class field theory -- Branch of algebraic number theory concerned with abelian extensions
Wikipedia - Classical electromagnetism -- Branch of theoretical physics that studies consequences of the electromagnetic forces between electric charges and currents
Wikipedia - Classical genetics -- Branch of genetics
Wikipedia - Classical mechanics -- branch of physics concerned with the set of classical laws describing the non-relativistic motion of bodies under the action of a system of forces
Wikipedia - Clearance Diving Branch (RAN) -- Diving unit of the Royal Australian Navy
Wikipedia - Clevedon branch line -- Railway line in England
Wikipedia - Coast Guard of Georgia -- maritime warfare and security branch of GeorgiaM-bM-^@M-^Ys military and border police
Wikipedia - Cognitive ecology -- Branch of ecology studying cognition in social and natural contexts
Wikipedia - Coles Branch (Crabtree Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Colin Branch (geologist) -- Australian geologist
Wikipedia - Colombian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Colombia's military
Wikipedia - Colombian Navy -- Maritime branch of Colombia's military
Wikipedia - Combinatorics -- Branch of discrete mathematics
Wikipedia - Commutative algebra -- Branch of algebra that studies commutative rings
Wikipedia - Composition of Mars -- Branch of the Geology of Mars
Wikipedia - Computability theory -- Branch of mathematical logic, computer science, and the theory of computation studying computable functions and Turing degrees
Wikipedia - Computational chemistry -- Branch of chemistry
Wikipedia - Computational fluid dynamics -- Branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows
Wikipedia - Computational geometry -- Branch of computer science
Wikipedia - Computer forensics -- Branch of digital forensic science
Wikipedia - Computing -- Branch of knowledge
Wikipedia - Condensed matter physics -- Branch of physics
Wikipedia - Conditional branching
Wikipedia - Conditional branch
Wikipedia - Consumer choice -- Branch of microeconomics
Wikipedia - Continuum mechanics -- Branch of physics which studies the behavior of materials modeled as continuous masses
Wikipedia - Control theory -- Branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems with inputs, and how their behavior is modified by feedback
Wikipedia - Cool Spring Branch (Lanes Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Corpus linguistics -- A branch of linguistics that studies language through examples contained in real texts
Wikipedia - Cosmogony -- Branch of science or a theory concerning the origin of the universe
Wikipedia - Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Executive branch of the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Wikipedia - Cranes Branch (Brown Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Creedmoor Branch -- former Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Crimora edwardsi -- A species of nudibranch in the family Polyceridae
Wikipedia - Croatian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Croatia's military
Wikipedia - Croatian Parliament -- Legislative branch of Croatia
Wikipedia - Crony Pond Branch -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Cross River languages -- Branch of Benue-Congo languages spoken in Nigeria and Cameroon
Wikipedia - Cuban Revolutionary Air and Air Defense Force -- Air warfare branch of Cuba's military
Wikipedia - Cultural anthropology -- Branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans
Wikipedia - Cushitic languages -- Branch of the Afroasiatic language family native to East Africa
Wikipedia - Cyber force -- military branch for cyber warfare
Wikipedia - Cyber Security and Crime Division -- Branch of Bangladesh Police
Wikipedia - Cyprus Air Forces -- Air warfare branch of Cyprus' military
Wikipedia - Cyprus Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Cyprus' military
Wikipedia - Cytopathology -- A branch of pathology that studies and diagnoses diseases on the cellular level
Wikipedia - Czech Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of the Czech Republic and Czechoslovakia
Wikipedia - Dagpo Kagyu -- Branches of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism that trace their lineage back through Gampopa
Wikipedia - Danbury Branch -- Metro-North Railroad branch in Connecticut
Wikipedia - David Branch (fighter) -- American mixed martial artist
Wikipedia - Dawn Brancheau -- American SeaWorld trainer
Wikipedia - Deep learning -- Branch of machine learning
Wikipedia - Defence Forces Training Centre -- Principal training centre for the Irish Army and other branches of the Irish Defence Forces
Wikipedia - Democratic Party (Puerto Rico) -- Local branch of the Democratic Party in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Dentistry -- Branch of medicine
Wikipedia - Departmental Gendarmerie -- Territorial police branch of the French National Gendarmerie
Wikipedia - Department for Protection and Security -- Security branch of the National Rally
Wikipedia - Dermatobranchus albineus -- A nudibranch in the family Arminidae.
Wikipedia - Dermatobranchus cymatilis -- species of mollusc
Wikipedia - Dermatobranchus multistriatus -- Species of mollusc
Wikipedia - Derrick Branche -- British actor
Wikipedia - Differential effects -- Branch of statistics concerned with inferring treatment effects
Wikipedia - Differential geometry -- Branch of mathematics dealing with functions and geometric structures on differentiable manifolds
Wikipedia - Digital forensics -- Branch of forensic science
Wikipedia - Diplostraca -- Infraclass of branchiopods
Wikipedia - Discrete optimization -- branch of mathematical optimization
Wikipedia - Distributary -- River branching off from main river
Wikipedia - Djibouti Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Djibouti's military
Wikipedia - Djiboutian Army -- Land warfare branch of Djibouti's military
Wikipedia - Dominican Air Force -- Air warfare branch of the Dominican Republic's military
Wikipedia - Draft:List of SM Supermalls branches -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Dunhuang railway -- Branch line of Railways in Gansu Province, China
Wikipedia - Dyke Branch (Leipsic River tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Earthly Branches -- East Asian system of 12 ordinals
Wikipedia - Earthquake engineering -- Interdisciplinary branch of engineering
Wikipedia - Earthquake prediction -- Branch of the science of seismology
Wikipedia - Easingwold Railway -- Branch line in the Vale of York, England
Wikipedia - East Branch South Fork Eel River -- River in Mendocino County, California, US
Wikipedia - East Branch Sugar Creek (Sugar Creek tributary) -- Stream in Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia - Eastern Min -- Branch of the Min group of Sinitic languages of China
Wikipedia - East Iceland Current -- A cold water ocean current that forms as a branch of the East Greenland Current
Wikipedia - East Junction Branch -- Railroad line
Wikipedia - East Korea Warm Current -- An ocean current in the Sea of Japan which branches off from the Tsushima Current at the eastern end of the Korea Strait, and flows north along the southeastern coast of the Korean peninsula
Wikipedia - East Portland Branch, Public Library of Multnomah County -- United States historic library
Wikipedia - Econophysics -- Branch of physics and economics
Wikipedia - Ecuadorian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Ecuador's military
Wikipedia - Educational psychology -- Branch of psychology concerned with the scientific study of human learning
Wikipedia - Egyptian Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of Egypt's armed forces
Wikipedia - Egyptian Army -- Land warfare branch of Egypt's military
Wikipedia - Egyptian language -- Language spoken in ancient Egypt, branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages
Wikipedia - Egyptian Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Egypt's military
Wikipedia - Elasmobranchii -- Subclass of fishes
Wikipedia - Electrochemistry -- Branch of chemistry
Wikipedia - Electromagnetism -- Branch of science concerned with the phenomena of electricity and magnetism
Wikipedia - Elizabeth Branch -- British murderer
Wikipedia - Embryology -- Branch of biology studying prenatal biology
Wikipedia - Enabling act -- Act of law enabling an agency such as an executive branch to take actions
Wikipedia - English Army -- |land warfare branch of England's military
Wikipedia - English underground -- Branch in England's history of music
Wikipedia - Environmental health -- Public health branch focused on environmental impacts on human health
Wikipedia - Environmental law -- Branch of law concerning the natural environment
Wikipedia - Epistemology -- Branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge
Wikipedia - Eritrean Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Eritrea's military
Wikipedia - Eritrean Navy -- Maritime warfare branch of Eritrea's military
Wikipedia - Estonian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Estonia's military
Wikipedia - Estonian Defence League -- Paramilitary branch of Estonia's military
Wikipedia - Ethics -- Branch of philosophy that discusses right and wrong conduct
Wikipedia - Ethnology -- Branch of anthropology
Wikipedia - Eubranchus odhneri -- Species of mollusc
Wikipedia - Eubranchus -- Genus of molluscs
Wikipedia - Eucharistic theology -- Branch of Christian theology
Wikipedia - Euopisthobranchia -- Taxon of gastropod molluscs
Wikipedia - European Commission -- Executive branch of the European Union
Wikipedia - European Islam -- Hypothesized new branch of Islam
Wikipedia - Evergreen Branch -- former Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Examination Yuan -- Government branch of the Republic of China
Wikipedia - Executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico -- Chief executive body of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Executive branch
Wikipedia - Executive Council of Alberta -- The body that leads the executive branch of Alberta
Wikipedia - Executive Order 9835 -- Prescribing Procedures for the Administration of an Employees Loyalty Program in the Executive Branch of the Government
Wikipedia - Exploration geophysics -- Applied branch of geophysics and economic geology
Wikipedia - Exposure assessment -- A branch of environmental science and occupational hygiene
Wikipedia - Family folklore -- Branch of folkloristics
Wikipedia - Farmers Branch Police Department -- Police department in Texas, U.S.
Wikipedia - Farmers Branch station -- DART light rail station in Farmers Branch, Texas
Wikipedia - Far Rockaway Branch -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Fawley branch line -- Branch railway in Hampshire, England
Wikipedia - FBI Intelligence Branch -- US FBI special division
Wikipedia - FBI National Security Branch -- US FBI national security unit
Wikipedia - Feminist economics -- Gender-aware branch of economics
Wikipedia - Fetal surgery -- Growing branch of maternal-fetal medicine
Wikipedia - Field Artillery Branch (United States) -- United States Army service branch responsible for self-propelled and towed artillery
Wikipedia - Finnish Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of Finland's armed forces
Wikipedia - Five Branches University -- Private university located in California, United States
Wikipedia - Fivemile Creek (East Branch Oil Creek tributary) -- Stream in Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Wikipedia - Flag of the United States Space Force -- United States military branch flag
Wikipedia - Fleet Air Arm -- Aviation branch of the British Royal Navy
Wikipedia - Flight test -- Branch of aeronautical engineering that develops and gathers data during flight.
Wikipedia - Float railway station -- Former station on the Inny Junction to Cavan branch of the Midland Great Western Railway, Ireland
Wikipedia - Fluid mechanics -- Branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them; branch of continuum mechanics
Wikipedia - Folklore studies -- Branch of anthropology devoted to the study of folklore
Wikipedia - Folkner Branch (New Hope River tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Fourier analysis -- Branch of mathematics
Wikipedia - Fractional calculus -- branch of mathematical analysis with fractional applications of derivatives and integrals
Wikipedia - Free-market anarchism -- Branch of anarchism that advocates a free-market system
Wikipedia - French Air and Space Force -- Air and space warfare branch of France's armed forces
Wikipedia - French Army -- Land warfare branch of France's military
Wikipedia - French Foreign Legion -- Military service branch of the French Army
Wikipedia - French Naval Aviation -- Aviation branch of the French Navy
Wikipedia - French Parliament -- Legislative branch of France
Wikipedia - From Beginning to End -- 2009 film directed by Aluizio Abranches
Wikipedia - Functional analysis -- Branch of mathematical analysis
Wikipedia - Gabonese Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of the Gabonese Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Gan Chinese -- primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China
Wikipedia - Garda Band -- PR branch of the Irish police force
Wikipedia - Garda Crime and Security Branch
Wikipedia - Garden City-Mitchel Field Secondary -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Garfield Park branch -- Former rapid transit line
Wikipedia - Gastroenterology -- Branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders
Wikipedia - Genecology -- branch of ecology
Wikipedia - General of the branch
Wikipedia - Geocell -- Cellular branch of Georgian telecommunication company Silknet
Wikipedia - Geometry -- Branch of mathematics
Wikipedia - Georgian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Georgia's armed forces
Wikipedia - Geostatistics -- A branch of statistics focusing on spatial data sets
Wikipedia - Geriatric anesthesia -- Branch of medicine that studies anesthesia approach in the elderly
Wikipedia - German Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Germany's military
Wikipedia - German Army (1935-1945) -- 1935-1945 land warfare branch of the German military
Wikipedia - German Army -- Land warfare branch of Germany's military since 1955
Wikipedia - German Navy -- Maritime warfare branch of Germany's military
Wikipedia - Ghana Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Ghana's military
Wikipedia - Gladstone Branch -- Commuter rail line in New Jersey
Wikipedia - Glycogen-branching enzyme deficiency -- Genetic disease in Quarter Horses and Paint Horses
Wikipedia - Glycogen branching enzyme -- Mammalian proteininvolved in glycogen production
Wikipedia - Goal programming -- Branch of multiobjective optimization
Wikipedia - Goniobranchus kitae -- Species of mollusc
Wikipedia - Government of Croatia -- Main executive branch of government in Croatia
Wikipedia - Government of Wallonia -- Executive branch of Wallonia
Wikipedia - Governor of Maryland -- Head of state and of the executive branch of government of the U.S. State of Maryland
Wikipedia - Graptolithina -- Subclass of Pterobranchia in the phylum Hemichordata
Wikipedia - Green anarchism -- branch of anarchism which puts a particular emphasis on environmental issues
Wikipedia - Green Line A branch -- Former streetcar line in Boston, Newton, and Watertown, Massachusetts
Wikipedia - Green Line B branch -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Green Line C branch -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Green Line D branch -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Green Line E branch -- Boston Massachusetts subway line
Wikipedia - Group theory -- Branch of mathematics that studies the properties of groups
Wikipedia - Gryazovets-Vyborg gas pipeline -- Branch pipeline of the Northern Lights pipeline
Wikipedia - Guatemalan Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Guatemala's military
Wikipedia - Gum Branch (Nanticoke River tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Gur languages -- branch of the Niger-Congo languages
Wikipedia - Guy Branch -- Royal Air Force officer
Wikipedia - Hada Chauhan -- Branch of the Chauhan community
Wikipedia - Hadass -- Branch of the myrtle tree that forms part of the lulav used on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot
Wikipedia - Hafizi Isma'ilism -- Branch of Musta'li Isma'ilism
Wikipedia - Haines City Branch -- Historic railroad in Central Florida
Wikipedia - Haleys Branch (Crabtree Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Hamilton Branch (Florida) -- Stream in Florida, United States
Wikipedia - Haminoea alfredensis -- Species of marine opisthobranch mollusc from South Africa
Wikipedia - Happily Married -- 2015 film directed by Aluizio Abranches
Wikipedia - Haptic communication -- Branch of nonverbal communication that refers to the ways in which people and animals communicate, and interact via the sense of touch
Wikipedia - Harlem station (CTA Blue Line O'Hare branch) -- Harlem station (CTA Blue Line O'Hare branch)
Wikipedia - Hatha yoga -- Branch of yoga focusing on physical techniques
Wikipedia - Haymanot -- Branch of Judaism practiced by the Beta Israel
Wikipedia - Hazel Branch -- American entomologist
Wikipedia - Head of government -- Chief officer of the executive branch of a government
Wikipedia - Hebtiahs Bohra -- Branch of Mustaali Ismaili Shi'a Islam
Wikipedia - Hedgehope Branch -- Branch railway line in the South Island of New Zealand
Wikipedia - Hellenic Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Greece's military
Wikipedia - Hellenic languages -- Branch of Indo-European language family
Wikipedia - Helston Railway -- Former branch line in Cornwall, England, now a heritage railway
Wikipedia - Hempstead Branch -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Heraldic badges of the Royal Air Force -- Insignia of certain groups and branches within the Royal Air Force
Wikipedia - Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum -- Presidential library and museum for U.S. President Herbert Hoover in West Branch, Iowa
Wikipedia - Highland branch -- Suburban railway line in Boston, Massachusetts
Wikipedia - Historical criticism -- Branch of literary criticism that investigates the origins of ancient text
Wikipedia - History of algebra -- History of a branch of mathematics
Wikipedia - History of the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Army -- History of the internal investigative branch of the U.S. Army
Wikipedia - History of the Philippine Army -- History of the 1935-1946 land warfare branch of the Philippine military
Wikipedia - HMS Redpole (P259) -- The third Seal class Long Range Recovery and Support Craft of the Royal Air Force Marine Branch
Wikipedia - Holliday junction -- Branched nucleic acid structure
Wikipedia - Honduran Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Honduras' military
Wikipedia - Horton Run (South Branch French Creek tributary) -- Stream in Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia - Hotel Paper -- Studio album by Michelle Branch
Wikipedia - Hounslow Loop Line -- Suburban electric railway line in England branching off the Waterloo to Reading line
Wikipedia - House of Burke -- Irish branch of ancient Anglo-Norman noble family
Wikipedia - House of Mukhrani -- Georgian princely family, branch of the Bagrationi dynasty
Wikipedia - House of York -- Cadet branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet
Wikipedia - Houston Branch (Marshyhope Creek tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Houston Branch -- American screenwriter
Wikipedia - Huaiyang cuisine -- Branch of Chinese traditional cuisine native to Jiangsu province
Wikipedia - Huastecan languages -- Most divergent branch of the Mayan language family
Wikipedia - Hunan cuisine -- Branch of Chinese traditional cuisine native to Hunan province
Wikipedia - Hungarian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Hungary's military
Wikipedia - Hungry Run (South Branch French Creek tributary) -- Stream in Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia - Hurworth Burn railway station -- Railway station on the Castle Eden branch of the North Eastern Railway from 1880 to 1931
Wikipedia - Hutterites -- Ethno-religious group since the 16th century; a communal branch of Anabaptists
Wikipedia - Hydrometeorology -- A branch of meteorology and hydrology that studies the transfer of water and energy between the land surface and the lower atmosphere
Wikipedia - Hydrostatics -- Branch of fluid mechanics that studies fluids at rest
Wikipedia - Ibadi theology -- Branch of Islamic theology
Wikipedia - Iceland Air Defence System -- Air surveillance branch of Iceland's military
Wikipedia - Icelandic Coast Guard -- Maritime security branch of Iceland's military
Wikipedia - Iconography -- Branch of art history
Wikipedia - Immunochemistry -- Branch of chemistry
Wikipedia - Immunology -- Branch of medicine studying the immune system
Wikipedia - Imperial Japanese Navy -- Naval branch of the Empire of Japan
Wikipedia - Index of branches of science -- Wikipedia index
Wikipedia - Indian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of India's military
Wikipedia - Indiana Klan -- Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan
Wikipedia - Indian Army -- Land based branch of the Indian Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Indian Financial System Code -- Unique identifier for a branch of a financial institution in India
Wikipedia - Indian Health Service -- Branch of the United States Health Department regarding the health of Native Americans
Wikipedia - Indian Navy -- maritime warfare branch of India's military
Wikipedia - Individualist anarchism -- Branch of anarchism that emphasize the individual and their will
Wikipedia - Indonesian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Indonesia's military
Wikipedia - Indonesian Navy -- Maritime warfare branch of Indonesia's military
Wikipedia - Industrial and organizational psychology -- Branch of psychology
Wikipedia - Industrial engineering -- Branch of engineering which deals with the optimization of complex processes or systems
Wikipedia - Industry (economics) -- Economic branch that produces raw materials, goods, or services
Wikipedia - Inertial confinement fusion -- Branch of fusion energy research
Wikipedia - Infantry Branch (United States) -- United States Army combat arms branch
Wikipedia - Information Branch -- Lebanese intelligence unit
Wikipedia - In re: Don McGahn -- American lawsuit regarding checks and balances between the Executive and Legislative Branches
Wikipedia - Intelligence Branch (Canadian Forces)
Wikipedia - Internet security -- Branch of computer security specifically related to Internet, often involving browser security and the World Wide Web
Wikipedia - Intersection theory -- Branch of algebraic geometry
Wikipedia - Intersection type discipline -- Branch of type theory
Wikipedia - Iraqi Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of Iraq's armed forces
Wikipedia - Iraqi Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Iraq's military
Wikipedia - Irish Air Corps -- Air warfare branch of the Irish armed forces
Wikipedia - Islamic Azad University, Damavand Branch -- University in Iran
Wikipedia - Islamic Azad University, Jahrom Branch -- Islamic University in Iran
Wikipedia - Islamic Azad University, Khomeyni Shahr Branch -- Branch of Islamic Azad University
Wikipedia - Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Iran's regular military
Wikipedia - Islamic Republic of Iran Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Iran's regular military
Wikipedia - Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- Branch of the Iranian Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Islamic schools and branches -- Islamic schools and branches
Wikipedia - Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Khorasan Province -- Branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Wikipedia - Israeli Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of the Israel Defense Forces
Wikipedia - Israeli Ground Forces -- Land service branch of the Israel Defense Forces
Wikipedia - Italian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Italy's armed forces
Wikipedia - Italian Navy -- Maritime warfare branch of Italy's military
Wikipedia - Jacks Branch (Brown Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Jahangir III -- 16th century ruler of the Paduspanid branch of Nur
Wikipedia - Jahangir IV -- 16th century ruler of the Paduspanid branch of Kojur
Wikipedia - Jaimie Branch -- American jazz trumpeter and composer
Wikipedia - Jain schools and branches
Wikipedia - James Branch (Broad Creek tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - James Branch Cabell
Wikipedia - Japan Air Self-Defense Force -- Air warfare branch of Japan's armed forces
Wikipedia - Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force -- Maritime warfare branch of Japan's military
Wikipedia - Jin Chinese -- Branch of Chinese spoken in parts of northern China
Wikipedia - John Branch -- American politician
Wikipedia - Johnsonville Branch -- Railway line in New Zealand
Wikipedia - Joseph Branch (Florida politician) -- First Attorney General of Florida
Wikipedia - Judicial branch
Wikipedia - Judiciary of Ghana -- Branch of government
Wikipedia - Judiciary of Jersey -- The judicial branch of the government of the island of Jersey
Wikipedia - Jukunoid languages -- Branch of Benue-Congo languages of Nigeria and Cameroon
Wikipedia - Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice -- Fantasy novel by James Branch Cabell
Wikipedia - Kapuni Branch -- Railway line
Wikipedia - Karluk languages -- Sub-branch of the Turkic language family
Wikipedia - Karto-Zan languages -- Branch of the Kartvelian languages constituted by the Georgic and Zan languages
Wikipedia - Kasranids -- Branch of the Shirvanshahs
Wikipedia - Katie Branch (Reedy Fork tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Keilbahnhof -- Type of train station located between branching tracks
Wikipedia - Kelly Branch (Brown Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Kenpeitai East District Branch -- Singapore headquarters of the Kenpeitai
Wikipedia - Kent-Sussex Line Branch -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Kenya Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Kenya's military
Wikipedia - Khamenei's 8-Article Command to the Chiefs of Branches -- 2019 statement by Ali Khamenei
Wikipedia - Kinematics -- Branch of physics describing the motion of objects or groups of objects without considering its cause
Wikipedia - Kingston Branch -- Railway line in Southland, New Zealand.
Wikipedia - KJMS -- Radio station in Olive Branch, Mississippi, serving Memphis, Tennessee
Wikipedia - Kombio-Arapeshan languages -- Branch of the Torricelli language family
Wikipedia - Kopust -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force -- Air warfare branch of North Korea's military
Wikipedia - Korean People's Navy -- Maritime warfare branch of North Korea's military
Wikipedia - Krista Branch -- American singer
Wikipedia - K-theory -- Branch of mathematics
Wikipedia - Kunqu -- Branch of Chinese opera
Wikipedia - Kuwait Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Kuwait's armed forces
Wikipedia - Kuwait Naval Force -- maritime branch of Kuwait's military
Wikipedia - Kyrgyz Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of the armed forces of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan
Wikipedia - Lacey Branch (Lanes Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Laestadianism in the Americas -- Branches of Laestadianism in the Americas
Wikipedia - Lagos State Police Command -- Branch of Nigeria police force
Wikipedia - Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Laos' military
Wikipedia - Lao People's Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Laos' military
Wikipedia - Large deviations theory -- branch of probability theory
Wikipedia - Larry Nixon -- Professional fisherman from Bee Branch, Arkansas
Wikipedia - Larrys Creek -- Tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River
Wikipedia - Latvian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Latvia's military
Wikipedia - Laurel Branch Library -- Library in Maryland, U.S.
Wikipedia - Laurel wreath -- Wreath made of branches and leaves of the bay laurel
Wikipedia - Lebanese Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Lebanon's military
Wikipedia - Lebanese Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Lebanon's military
Wikipedia - Lebanese Shia Muslims -- Branch of islam in Lebanese
Wikipedia - Ledbetter Branch (Brown Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Legal evolution -- Branch of legal theory
Wikipedia - Legislative Assembly of Macau -- Organ of the legislative branch of Macau
Wikipedia - Legislative branch
Wikipedia - Legislature of Guam -- Unicameral legislative branch of the US territory, Guam
Wikipedia - Liadi (Hasidic dynasty) -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Library branch
Wikipedia - Libyan Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Libya's armed forces
Wikipedia - Lichenology -- branch of mycology that studies lichens
Wikipedia - Lichtenberg figure -- Branching shapes
Wikipedia - Lick Branch (Lanes Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Lick Branch (South Grand River tributary) -- River in Missouri, United States of America
Wikipedia - Lifestyle medicine -- A branch of medicine
Wikipedia - Linear algebra -- Branch of mathematics
Wikipedia - Lion's Gate Project -- developmental branch of Japanese professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Wikipedia - List of branches of alternative medicine
Wikipedia - List of Brooklyn Public Library branches -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Dhammakaya branches -- List of branch centers of the Thai Buddhist Dhammakaya Movement
Wikipedia - List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
Wikipedia - List of engineering branches -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Hennepin County Library branches -- List of libraries in Hennepin County in Minnesota, US
Wikipedia - List of Lutheran seminaries in North America -- branch of Protestantism based on the teachings of Martin Luther
Wikipedia - List of marine heterobranch gastropods of South Africa -- A list of saltwater mollusc species that form a part of the molluscan fauna of South Africa
Wikipedia - List of Nudibranchia of Ireland -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of people who have served in all three branches of a U.S. state government -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of people who have served in all three branches of the United States federal government -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Queensland branch line locations -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Queens Public Library branches -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of Special Branch episodes -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - Lithuanian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Lithuania's military
Wikipedia - Litobrancha -- Genus of insects
Wikipedia - Little Cut -- British branch canal
Wikipedia - Little Laurel Branch -- Protected natural area in Virginia, United States
Wikipedia - Little Murray River (New South Wales) -- anabranch of the Murray River, New South Wales, Australia
Wikipedia - Livonian Order -- |Autonomous branch of the knights of the Teutonic Order, active 1237 to 1561
Wikipedia - London Bridge Branch -- Protected natural area in Virginia, United States
Wikipedia - Long Beach Branch -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Long branch attraction -- A form of systematic error whereby distantly related lineages are incorrectly inferred to be closely related
Wikipedia - Long Branch High School -- High school in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
Wikipedia - Long Branch, New Jersey -- City in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
Wikipedia - Long Branch Public Schools -- School district in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States
Wikipedia - Long Branch (Reedy Fork tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Long Branch Saloon gunfight -- American Old West gunfight
Wikipedia - Long Branch (Toms Dam Branch tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Louis, Grand CondM-CM-) -- Prince of the CondM-CM-) branch of the House of Bourbon and French military leader
Wikipedia - LuftstreitkrM-CM-$fte -- Air warfare branch of the German Empire
Wikipedia - Luftwaffe -- Aerial warfare branch of the German military forces during World War II
Wikipedia - Luxembourg Army -- Land warfare branch of Luxembourg's public forces
Wikipedia - Macroeconomics -- Branch of economics that studies aggregated indicators
Wikipedia - Madame Tussauds Beijing -- Beijing branch of Madame Tussauds wax museum
Wikipedia - Mahayana -- Branch of Buddhism
Wikipedia - Main Line (Long Island Rail Road) -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Maison militaire du roi de France -- Military branch of the French royal household
Wikipedia - Malaysian Special Branch
Wikipedia - Malebranche (Divine Comedy)
Wikipedia - Mambiloid languages -- Branch of Benue-Congo languages of Cameroon and Nigeria
Wikipedia - Mandarin Chinese -- Major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China
Wikipedia - Manhattan Beach Branch -- former Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Maple syrup urine disease -- Metabolic disorder affecting branched-chain amino acids. It is one type of organic acidemia.[2] The condition gets its name from the distinctive sweet odor of affected infants' urine
Wikipedia - Marica Branchesi -- Italian astrophysicist
Wikipedia - Maric languages -- Extinct branch of the Pama-Nyungan language family
Wikipedia - Marketing research -- Branch of research for business management, studying markets and economic opportunities
Wikipedia - Market microstructure -- Branch of finance
Wikipedia - Mary-Cooke Branch Munford
Wikipedia - Marylise Lebranchu -- French politician
Wikipedia - Mathematical analysis -- Branch of mathematics
Wikipedia - Mathematical and theoretical biology -- Branch of biology which employs theoretical analysis, mathematical models and abstractions of the living organisms
Wikipedia - Mauritania Islamic Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Mauritanian Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey -- List of mayors of Long Branch, New Jersey
Wikipedia - Mayor of New York City -- Head of the executive branch of New York City's government
Wikipedia - Mayor of the District of Columbia -- Head of the executive branch of the government of Washington, D.C
Wikipedia - Maze -- Puzzle game in the form of a complex branching passage
Wikipedia - Meadow Branch (Little Creek tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Measurement and signature intelligence -- Technical branch of intelligence gathering
Wikipedia - Mechanical engineering -- Engineering discipline and economic branch
Wikipedia - Medical corps -- Military service branch responsible for health and medical care for military personnel
Wikipedia - Medical microbiology -- Branch of medical science concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases
Wikipedia - Medical specialty -- Branch of medicine concerning a specific group of diseases or population
Wikipedia - Melling Branch -- Commuter Branch Line New Zealand
Wikipedia - Meta-ethics -- Branch of ethics seeking to understand ethical properties
Wikipedia - Metaphysics -- Branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of reality
Wikipedia - Mexican Air Force -- Air warfare branch of the Mexican Army
Wikipedia - Michelle Branch discography -- artist discography
Wikipedia - Michigan State Capitol -- The building that houses the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan
Wikipedia - Microcotyle branchiostegi -- Species of worms
Wikipedia - Microeconomics -- Branch of economics that studies the behavior of individual households and firms in making decisions on the allocation of limited resources
Wikipedia - Micropaleontology -- The branch of paleontology that studies microfossils
Wikipedia - Mike Mains & The Branches -- Rock indie band
Wikipedia - Milford Branch -- Former railway line in Massachusetts
Wikipedia - Military branch -- Subdivision of the national armed forces
Wikipedia - Mill Branch (Cacapon River tributary) -- US stream in West Virginia
Wikipedia - Mill Branch (Tussocky Branch tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Min Chinese -- Primary branch of Chinese spoken in southern China and Taiwan
Wikipedia - Mind in eastern philosophy -- branch of philosophy on the nature of the mind
Wikipedia - Ministry of Tourism (India) -- Branch of the Government of India
Wikipedia - Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- Branch of Freedom Democratic party during 1960s Civil Rights Movement
Wikipedia - Missouri State Defense Force -- Militia branch of the State of Missouri
Wikipedia - Moldovan Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of Moldova's military
Wikipedia - Molecular biology -- Branch of biology which studies biological activity at the molecular level
Wikipedia - Molecular phylogenetics -- The branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences
Wikipedia - Molecular scale electronics -- Branch of nanotechnology
Wikipedia - Mongolian Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of Mongolia's military
Wikipedia - Monmouth University -- Private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey, US
Wikipedia - Montauk Branch -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Mount Loretto Spur -- Former railroad branch in Staten Island, New York
Wikipedia - Muddy Branch Greenway Trail -- Hiking trail along Muddy Branch Creek in Maryland
Wikipedia - Muddy Branch -- Tributary of the Potomac River in Maryland, United States
Wikipedia - Multiway branch
Wikipedia - Murdoch University Dubai -- Branch university campus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Wikipedia - Music Branch (Canadian Forces) -- Institution for military bands in the Canadian Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Myanmar Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Myanmar's military
Wikipedia - Mycelium -- The vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae.
Wikipedia - Namibian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Namibia's military
Wikipedia - Nasobranchitrema -- Genus of worms
Wikipedia - National Academy of Sciences -- Science branch of the United States National Academies
Wikipedia - National Air Force of Angola -- Aerial warfare branch of Angola's armed forces
Wikipedia - National Archives at Seattle -- Regional branch of the National Archives and Records Administration
Wikipedia - National Band of the Carabineros -- Music branch of the Chilean Carabineros
Wikipedia - National Center for Biotechnology Information -- Database branch of the US National Library of Medicine
Wikipedia - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration -- American agency of the Executive Branch of the Department of Transportation
Wikipedia - Natural science -- Branch of science about the natural world
Wikipedia - Naucratis -- City of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile river
Wikipedia - Naval weaponry of the People's Liberation Army Navy -- Weapon systems of the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army of China
Wikipedia - Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- Maritime warfare branch of Iran's Revolutionary Guard
Wikipedia - Navy -- Military branch for naval warfare
Wikipedia - Neontology -- Branch of biology that studies living organisms
Wikipedia - Nepali Army -- Land warfare branch of Nepal's military
Wikipedia - Netherlands Coastguard -- Coastal defence and maritime law enforcement branch of the Royal Netherlands Navy
Wikipedia - Neuropsychiatry -- Branch of medicine that deals with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system
Wikipedia - Nevada Legislature -- Bicameral legislative branch for the state of Nevada
Wikipedia - New Apostolic Reformation -- Movement which seeks to establish a fifth branch within Christendom
Wikipedia - New Caledonian languages -- Subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - New Canaan Branch -- Metro-North Railroad branch in Connecticut
Wikipedia - New Orleans Mint -- Branch of the United States Mint
Wikipedia - New York Public Library Main Branch -- Main branch of New York Public Library and historic library building in Manhattan, New York
Wikipedia - Nicaraguan Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Nicaragua's military
Wikipedia - Nichiren Buddhism -- Branch of Buddhism based on the teachings of the thirteenth century Japanese monk Nichiren
Wikipedia - Nichiren ShM-EM-^MshM-EM-+ -- Branch of Nichiren Buddhism
Wikipedia - Nicholas Malebranche
Wikipedia - Nicolas Malebranche
Wikipedia - Niezhin (Hasidic dynasty) -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Nigerian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Nigeria's military
Wikipedia - Nigerian Navy -- Branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Non-equilibrium thermodynamics -- Branch of thermodynamics
Wikipedia - Norkett Branch -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Normative ethics -- branch of philosophical ethics that examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions
Wikipedia - North Branch Buffalo Creek -- River in Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia - North Branch Dead River -- River in Maine, United States of America
Wikipedia - North Branch, New Jersey -- Place in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States
Wikipedia - North Branch Township, Isanti County, Minnesota -- Township in Minnesota, United States
Wikipedia - Northern Bantoid languages -- Branch of the Bantoid family of Niger-Congo languages
Wikipedia - North Germanic languages -- Branch of Germanic languages spoken predominantly in the Nordic countries
Wikipedia - North Macedonia Air Brigade -- Air warfare branch of North Macedonia's military
Wikipedia - Northport Branch -- former Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - North Shore Branch -- Railroad branch in Staten Island, New York
Wikipedia - North Vanuatu languages -- Subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Northwest Branch Anacostia River -- Anacostia River tributary in Maryland, U.S.
Wikipedia - Northwest Branch Trail -- Hiking trail in Maryland
Wikipedia - Norwegian and Swedish Travellers -- Branch of the Romani people resident in Norway and Sweden
Wikipedia - Norwich Union -- Defunct British branch of Aviva
Wikipedia - Nosology -- Branch of medicine that deals with classification of diseases
Wikipedia - Number theory -- Branch of mathematics
Wikipedia - Nupoid languages -- Branch of volta-Niger African language
Wikipedia - Office of the Inspector General of the United States Army -- Internal investigative branch of the U.S. Army
Wikipedia - Ohio University - Chillicothe -- Branch of Ohio University, U.S.
Wikipedia - Oldcastle branch line -- Railway line in County Meath, Ireland
Wikipedia - Olive branch
Wikipedia - Oncology -- Branch of medicine dealing with cancer
Wikipedia - Ontology -- Branch of philosophy concerned with concepts such as existence, reality, being, becoming, as well as the basic categories of existence and their relations
Wikipedia - Oology -- Branch of ornithology studying bird eggs, nests and breeding behavior
Wikipedia - Open-channel flow -- Branch of hydraulics and fluid mechanics
Wikipedia - Operation Olive Branch -- Turkish offensive against the SDF in Afrin
Wikipedia - Optics -- Branch of physics that studies light
Wikipedia - Optoelectronics -- Branch of electronics involving optics
Wikipedia - Order of battle for Operation Olive Branch -- Order of battle
Wikipedia - Order of Friars Minor Conventual -- Branch of the Catholic Order of Friars Minor, founded by Francis of Assisi in 1209
Wikipedia - Organic acidemia -- Group of metabolic disorders which disrupt normal amino acid metabolism, particularly branched-chain amino acids, causing a buildup of acids
Wikipedia - Oriental Orthodox Churches -- Branch of Eastern Christianity
Wikipedia - Orthodox Judaism -- Traditionalist branches of Judaism
Wikipedia - Oscar Branch Colquitt -- American politician
Wikipedia - Otago Central Railway -- Branch railway line in Otago, New Zealand
Wikipedia - Otocephaly -- Congenital first branchial arch defect
Wikipedia - Oto-Pamean languages -- Branch of the Oto-Manguean languages of Mexico
Wikipedia - Ottoman studies -- Interdisciplinary branch of the humanities
Wikipedia - Owens Branch (West Branch Gum Branch tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Oyster Bay Branch -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Pakistan Navy -- Maritime service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Paleozoology -- Branch of paleontology, paleobiology, or zoology
Wikipedia - Palm branch (symbol)
Wikipedia - Palm branch
Wikipedia - Panicle -- Term used in botany to describe a branching of flower heads
Wikipedia - Panther Branch Township, Wake County, North Carolina -- Township in Wake County, North Carolina
Wikipedia - Parker Branch (Gum Branch tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Parliament of Jamaica -- Legislative branch of the jamaican government
Wikipedia - Particle physics -- Branch of physics
Wikipedia - Patrick Run (East Branch Oil Creek tributary) -- River in Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Wikipedia - Pediatrics -- Branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents
Wikipedia - People's Liberation Army Air Force -- Air warfare branch of China's military
Wikipedia - People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of China's navy
Wikipedia - People's Liberation Army Navy -- maritime warfare branch of China's military
Wikipedia - Permetter Branch (Brown Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Persimmon Run (West Branch Christina River tributary) -- river tributary in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Personal genomics -- The branch of genomics concerned with the genome of an individual
Wikipedia - Personality psychology -- Branch of psychology focused on personality
Wikipedia - Peruvian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Peru's military
Wikipedia - Peruvian Army -- Land warfare branch of Peru's armed forces
Wikipedia - Petrography -- Branch of petrology focusing on detailed descriptions of rocks
Wikipedia - Petrology -- The branch of geology that studies the origin, composition, distribution and structure of rocks
Wikipedia - Pharmacogenomics -- Branch of science
Wikipedia - Pharmacology -- branch of biology concerning drugs
Wikipedia - Philippine Air Force -- Air warfare branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine Army -- Ground warfare branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philippine languages -- Proposed branch of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Philippine Navy -- Naval warfare branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
Wikipedia - Philosophical language -- Branch of philosophy
Wikipedia - Philosophy of law -- Branch of philosophy examining the nature of law
Wikipedia - Philosophy of mathematics -- Branch of philosophy on the nature of mathematics
Wikipedia - Philosophy of mind -- Branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of the mind
Wikipedia - Philosophy of religion -- Branch of philosophy examining the concepts of religion
Wikipedia - Philosophy of space and time -- Branch of philosophy relating to spatiality and temporality
Wikipedia - Phlebobranchia -- Suborder of marine animals in the tunicates subphylum
Wikipedia - Phonetics -- Branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech
Wikipedia - Phonology -- Branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic organization of sounds in languages
Wikipedia - Photonics -- Branch of physics related to the technical applications of light
Wikipedia - Phycology -- Branch of botany concerned with the study of algae
Wikipedia - Phylogenetic tree -- Branching diagram of evolutionary relationships between organisms
Wikipedia - Physical cosmology -- Branch of astronomy
Wikipedia - Physical medicine and rehabilitation -- Branch of medicine
Wikipedia - Phytogeography -- Branch of biogeography concerned with the geographic distribution of plant species
Wikipedia - Pigeon House Branch -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Pine Run (South Branch French Creek tributary) -- Stream in Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia - Piore River languages -- Branch of Skou languages
Wikipedia - Platydoris argo -- Species of nudibranch
Wikipedia - Pleurobranchaea -- Genus of molluscs
Wikipedia - Police diving -- A branch of professional diving carried out by police services
Wikipedia - Polish Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of Poland's armed forces
Wikipedia - Polish Land Forces -- Ground warfare branch of Poland's military forces
Wikipedia - Political sociology -- Branch of sociology
Wikipedia - Popillii Laenates -- Branch of the gens Popillia
Wikipedia - Port Jefferson Branch -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Portuguese Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of Portugal's armed forces
Wikipedia - Portuguese Navy -- Naval branch of the Portuguese Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Port Washington Branch -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Positive economics -- Branch of economics
Wikipedia - Practical Kabbalah -- Branch of the Jewish mystical tradition that concerns the use of magic
Wikipedia - Pragmatics -- Branch of linguistics and semiotics relating context to meaning
Wikipedia - Presbyterianism -- Branch of Protestant Christianity in which the church is governed by presbyters (elders)
Wikipedia - Primary and secondary legislation -- Law made by the legislative branch of government, and by persons or groups delegated for this purpose by the legislature
Wikipedia - Prime Minister of Pakistan -- Leader of the executive branch of the Government of Pakistan
Wikipedia - Prime minister -- Most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system
Wikipedia - Prince Alexis Karageorgevich -- Head of the senior branch of the House of Karageorgevitch and a claimant to the Serbian throne
Wikipedia - Princeton Branch -- Commuter rail line in New Jersey
Wikipedia - Principal value -- Values along one branch of a multivalued function so that it is single-valued
Wikipedia - Probability -- Branch of mathematics concerning chance and uncertainty
Wikipedia - Process manufacturing -- Branch of manufacturing that is associated with formulas and manufacturing recipes
Wikipedia - Programming language theory -- |Branch of computer science
Wikipedia - Propionic acidemia -- A rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder, classified as a branched-chain organic acidemia
Wikipedia - Provincial legislature (South Africa) -- Legislative branch of a South African province
Wikipedia - Psychiatry -- Branch of medicine devoted to the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, of mental disorders
Wikipedia - Psychophysiology -- Branch of psychology
Wikipedia - Pterobranchia -- Class of hemichordates
Wikipedia - Public interest accounting -- Branch of accounting research
Wikipedia - Public policy -- Principled guide to action taken by the administrative executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico Department of Education -- An agency of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources -- Part of the executive branch of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico Education Council -- Agency of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico State Agency for Emergency and Disaster Management -- Executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico that oversees its emergency activities
Wikipedia - Pylorobranchus hoi -- Species of worm eel
Wikipedia - Qadhadhfa -- One of the branches of the Houara tribe in Libya
Wikipedia - Qarmatians -- Syncretic branch of Sevener Ismaili Shia Islam
Wikipedia - Qatar Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Qatar's military
Wikipedia - Quantum mechanics -- Branch of physics describing nature on an atomic scale
Wikipedia - Quaternary geology -- The branch of geology that studies developments more recent than 2.6 million years ago
Wikipedia - Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps -- Women's branch of British Army in First World War
Wikipedia - Radical environmentalism -- grassroots and extremist branch of environmentalism
Wikipedia - Ramification (mathematics) -- The branching out of a mathematical structure
Wikipedia - Ramsey theory -- Branch of mathematics that studies the conditions under which order must appear
Wikipedia - Rashtriya Rifles -- A Branch of the Indian Army
Wikipedia - Relation between Schrodinger's equation and the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics -- Relationship between branches of physics
Wikipedia - Remedies in Singapore administrative law -- Types of legal orders applicable on Singapore Government's executive branch
Wikipedia - Renewal theory -- branch of probability theory
Wikipedia - Representation theory -- Branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures
Wikipedia - Reproductive biology -- Branch of biology studying reproduction
Wikipedia - Republic of China Air Force -- Aviation branch of Taiwan's armed forces
Wikipedia - Republic of China Army -- Ground branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces in Taiwan
Wikipedia - Republic of China Navy -- Maritime service branch of the Republic of China's armed forces
Wikipedia - Republic of Korea Air Force -- Air warfare branch of South Korea's military
Wikipedia - Republic of Korea Army -- Land warfare branch of South Korea's military
Wikipedia - Republic of Korea Marine Corps -- Amphibious warfare branch of South Korea's military
Wikipedia - Republic of Korea Navy -- Naval warfare branch of South Korea's military
Wikipedia - Republic of Singapore Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Singapore's military
Wikipedia - Republic of Singapore Navy -- Naval warfare branch of the Singapore Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Republic of Vietnam Navy -- Former naval branch of the South Vietnamese military
Wikipedia - Rexmere Lakes -- West Branch Delaware River
Wikipedia - Rhabdopleura annulata -- Species of hemichordates in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Rhabdopleura compacta -- Species of hemichordates in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Rhabdopleura normani -- Species of hemichordate in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Rhabdopleura recondita -- Species of hemichordate in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Rhabdopleura striata -- Species of hemichordates in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Rhabdopleurida -- Order of hemichordates in the pterobranchian class
Wikipedia - Rhizostomae -- An order of jellyfish with eight branched oral arms
Wikipedia - Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- fundamentalist Mormon sect based in Iron County, Utah
Wikipedia - Ring theory -- Branch of algebra
Wikipedia - Rizhskaya railway station -- Railway station of Alexeyevsky rail branch in Moscow
Wikipedia - Roaring Branch -- Protected natural area in Virginia, United States
Wikipedia - Robbinsdale Library -- defunct branch library of the Hennepin County Library system in Robbinsdale, Minnesota
Wikipedia - Rockaway Beach Branch -- former Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Rock Branch (Camp Creek tributary) -- River in Missouri, United States of America
Wikipedia - Rock Branch (Haw River tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Rocky Branch (Lanes Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Rocky Branch (Reedy Fork tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Romanian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Romania's military
Wikipedia - Romani language -- Language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
Wikipedia - Ronkonkoma Branch -- Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - Root and Branch petition -- Petition present to English Parliament in 1640
Wikipedia - Roots and Branches (2001 film) -- 2001 film by Yu Zhong
Wikipedia - Rosa Collazo -- Political activist and militant, treasurer of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party NY branch
Wikipedia - Royal Air Force Marine Branch -- Air-sea rescue service
Wikipedia - Royal Air Force -- Aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Royal Army of Oman -- Land warfare branch of Oman's military
Wikipedia - Royal Australian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Australia's armed forces
Wikipedia - Royal Australian Navy -- Naval warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force
Wikipedia - Royal Bahraini Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Bahrain's military
Wikipedia - Royal Bahraini Army -- Land warfare branch of Bahrain's military forces
Wikipedia - Royal Bahrain Naval Force -- naval warfare branch of Bahrain's military
Wikipedia - Royal Bhutan Army -- Land warfare branch of Bhutan's military forces
Wikipedia - Royal Brunei Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Brunei's military
Wikipedia - Royal Brunei Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Brunei's military
Wikipedia - Royal Cambodian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Cambodia's armed forces
Wikipedia - Royal Cambodian Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Cambodia's military
Wikipedia - Royal Canadian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Canada's military
Wikipedia - Royal Canadian Navy -- Maritime warfare branch of Canada's military
Wikipedia - Royal Danish Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Denmark's armed forces
Wikipedia - Royal Jordanian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Jordan's military
Wikipedia - Royal Jordanian Navy -- maritime warfare branch of Jordan's military
Wikipedia - Royal Malaysian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Malaysia's military forces
Wikipedia - Royal Malaysian Navy -- naval warfare branch of Malaysia's military
Wikipedia - Royal Moroccan Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Morocco's military
Wikipedia - Royal Moroccan Navy -- Branch of Morocco's military
Wikipedia - Royal Navy of Oman -- naval warfare branch of the Royal Armed Forces of the Sultanate of Oman
Wikipedia - Royal Netherlands Air Force -- Air warfare branch of the Netherlands' armed forces
Wikipedia - Royal Norwegian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Norway's armed forces
Wikipedia - Royal Saudi Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Saudi Arabia's military
Wikipedia - Royal Thai Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of Thailand's military
Wikipedia - Royal Thai Navy -- Naval warfare branch of Thailand's military
Wikipedia - RTA Rapid Transit -- An intermodal public transit network in Cleveland, East Cleveland, and Shaker Heights, Ohio, with 1 rapid transit line, 3 light rail lines and 9 bus rapid transit (BRT) lines (including branches)
Wikipedia - RUC Special Branch -- Special Branch of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
Wikipedia - Rushing Branch (Brown Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Russian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Russia's military
Wikipedia - Russian Space Forces -- Sub-branch of the Russian Aerospace Forces
Wikipedia - Sag Harbor Branch -- former Long Island Rail Road branch
Wikipedia - San Diego City Council -- Legislative branch of the City of San Diego, California
Wikipedia - Sandom Branch -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Santee Branch -- Stream in Mississippi, United States
Wikipedia - Santragachi-Amta branch line -- Railway route in India
Wikipedia - Seann Branchfield -- American composer and songwriter
Wikipedia - Seccion Femenina -- Women's branch of the Spanish political party Falange
Wikipedia - Secretariat of State (Holy See) -- Branch of the Holy See that handles political and diplomatic functions
Wikipedia - Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico -- Executive branch of Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Secret Intelligence Branch -- Defunct intelligence organization of the United States
Wikipedia - Selangor State Executive Council -- Executive branch of State Government of Selangor, Malaysia
Wikipedia - Semitic languages -- branch of the Afroasiatic language family native to the Middle East
Wikipedia - Senegalese Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Senegal's military
Wikipedia - Sequencing -- In genetics and biochemistry, determining the structure of an unbranched biopolymer
Wikipedia - Serbian Air Force and Air Defence -- Air warfare branch of Serbia's military
Wikipedia - Set theory -- Branch of mathematics that studies sets
Wikipedia - Sex-positive feminism -- Branch of feminism that emphasizes sexual freedoms
Wikipedia - Shandong cuisine -- Branch of Chinese traditional cuisine native to Shandong province
Wikipedia - Shell Nigeria -- Oil branch of Royal dutch shell
Wikipedia - Shen'ao line -- Railway branch line of the Taiwan Railways Administration
Wikipedia - Sheoraphuli-Bishnupur branch line -- Indian railway line
Wikipedia - Shia Islam -- One of the two main branches of Islam
Wikipedia - Shillelagh branch line -- Irish rail line
Wikipedia - Shoot -- Young stem or branch
Wikipedia - Singapore Army -- Land warfare branch of the Singapore Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Slaughter Run (South Branch French Creek tributary) -- Stream in Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia - Slovak Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Slovakia's military
Wikipedia - Slovenian Air Force and Air Defence -- Air warfare branch of the Slovenian armed forces
Wikipedia - Smaragdinella -- Genus of marine opisthobranch gastropod molluscs
Wikipedia - Smith Branch (Reedy Fork tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Social anarchism -- branch of anarchism emphasizing communal individuality and mutual aid
Wikipedia - Social anthropology -- Branch of anthropology
Wikipedia - SociM-CM-)tM-CM-) GM-CM-)nM-CM-)rale, London Branch v Geys -- United Kingdom labour law case
Wikipedia - Sociology of religion -- Branch of sociology
Wikipedia - Sociophonetics -- Branch of linguistics combining sociolinguistics and phonetics
Wikipedia - Software engineering -- Branch of computing science
Wikipedia - Soil mechanics -- Branch of soil physics and applied mechanics that describes the behavior of soils
Wikipedia - Solid-state physics -- Branch of physics of matter in the solid state
Wikipedia - Somali Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Somalia's military
Wikipedia - Somali language -- Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch
Wikipedia - Sony Music Nashville -- Country music branch of Sony Music Entertainment
Wikipedia - Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan -- Japanese branch of Sony Pictures
Wikipedia - South African Air Force -- Air warfare branch of the Republic of South Africa's armed forces
Wikipedia - South African Navy -- Naval warfare branch of the Republic of South Africa's armed forces
Wikipedia - South Beach Branch -- former railroad branch in Staten Island, New York
Wikipedia - South Branch French Creek (French Creek tributary) -- Stream in Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia - South Branch, Minnesota -- Unincorporated community in Minnesota, United States
Wikipedia - South Branch Potomac River -- River in United States
Wikipedia - Southern Bantoid languages -- Branch of the Bantuid family of Niger-Congo languages
Wikipedia - Southern Oceanic languages -- Subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - South Sudan Air Force -- Aerial warfare branch of the South Sudan military
Wikipedia - South Vanuatu languages -- Subgroup of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Southwestern Tai languages -- Branch of the Tai languages of Southeast Asia
Wikipedia - Soviet Air Defence Forces -- Air defense branch of the Soviet Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Soviet Air Forces -- Aerial warfare branch of the Soviet Union's armed forces
Wikipedia - Sowbridge Branch (Primehook Creek tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Space environment -- Branch of astronautics,aerospace engineeringand space physics that seeks to understand and address condition existing in space that affect
Wikipedia - Space force -- Military branch for space warfare
Wikipedia - Space weather -- Branch of space physics and aeronomy
Wikipedia - Spanish Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Spain's armed forces
Wikipedia - Spanish Navy -- Naval warfare branch of Spain's military
Wikipedia - Special Branch (Bangladesh)
Wikipedia - Special Branch, Royal Thai Police
Wikipedia - Special Branch -- Commonwealth/Irish intelligence units
Wikipedia - Special Investigation Branch -- Detective branch of the British military police.
Wikipedia - Spectral imaging -- Branch of spectroscopy and of photography
Wikipedia - Spencer Creek (South Branch French Creek tributary) -- Stream in Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia - Spirobranchus giganteus -- Species of marine tube worm
Wikipedia - Spirobranchus kraussii -- Species of marine annelid from the Indian ocean
Wikipedia - Spirobranchus -- Genus of annelids
Wikipedia - Spring Branch, Houston
Wikipedia - Spring Branch Independent School District
Wikipedia - Springdale station -- Commuter rail stop on the New Canaan Branch in Stamford, CT
Wikipedia - Spruances Branch (Leipsic River tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Spur route -- Short road forming a branch from a freeway, Interstate Highway, or motorway
Wikipedia - Sri Lanka Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Sri Lanka's military forces
Wikipedia - Stallion Head Branch -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Stanley Branche -- American civil rights leader
Wikipedia - Statics -- Branch of mechanics concerned with balance of forces in nonmoving systems
Wikipedia - Stepney Green cavern -- Underground junction where Crossrail spits into two branches
Wikipedia - Stepp Branch (Swannanoa River tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Stevens Branch -- River in the United States of America
Wikipedia - St. Johns Library -- Library branch building in Oregon, U. S.
Wikipedia - Strahler number -- Measure of the branching complexity
Wikipedia - Strashelye (Hasidic dynasty) -- Branch of the Chabad movement
Wikipedia - Strategic Support Branch
Wikipedia - Swans Branch (Brown Creek tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Symplectic geometry -- Branch of differential geometry and differential topology
Wikipedia - Synthetic biology -- Interdisciplinary branch of biology and engineering
Wikipedia - Synthetic virology -- Branch of virology engaged specifically in the study and engineering of synthetic, human-made viruses.
Wikipedia - Syriac Orthodox Church -- Oriental Orthodox Church branched from the Church of Antioch
Wikipedia - Tajik Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Tajikistan's military
Wikipedia - Talmadge Branch -- American politician
Wikipedia - Tanyard Branch (Marshyhope Creek tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Tanzania Air Force Command -- Air warfare branch of Tanzania's military
Wikipedia - Taracahitic languages -- Putative branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family of Mexico
Wikipedia - Teige-an-Duna MacCarthy -- Last hereditary Prince of the Dunmanway branch
Wikipedia - Tel Aviv Branch Office of the Embassy of the United States -- United States embassy branch located in Tel Aviv, Israel
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Wikipedia - Tenth intellect -- Primordial being in the cosmological doctrine of the Tayyibi branch of Ismaili Shia Islam
Wikipedia - Tercio -- Land warfare branch of the Spanish Tercios of the Spanish Empire
Wikipedia - Territorial Defence Force (Poland) -- fifth military branch of the Polish Armed Forces
Wikipedia - Tetsh (Hasidic dynasty) -- Branch of the Ujhel-Siget Hasidic dynasty
Wikipedia - Texas Education Agency -- Education branch of the government of Texas, United States
Wikipedia - Texas Navy -- Military branch of the Republic of Texas specialized in naval warfare (1839-1846)
Wikipedia - Textual criticism -- Branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism
Wikipedia - Theoretical physics -- Branch of physics
Wikipedia - Theravada -- Branch of Buddhism, oldest extant school
Wikipedia - The Three Marias -- 2002 film directed by Aluizio Abranches
Wikipedia - Thin-film optics -- Branch of optics that deals with very thin structured layers of different materials
Wikipedia - Third camp -- Branch of socialism
Wikipedia - Thomae's formula -- Relates theta constants to the branch points of a hyperelliptic curve
Wikipedia - Tomahawk Branch (Swannanoa River tributary) -- Stream in North Carolina, USA
Wikipedia - Toms Dam Branch -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Topology -- Branch of mathematics
Wikipedia - Toponymy -- Branch of onomastics in linguistics, study of place names
Wikipedia - Toxicology -- Branch of biology, chemistry, and medicine
Wikipedia - Traditionalist theology (Islam) -- Islamic sunni theologic branch
Wikipedia - Traffic management -- Branch of logistics concerning the movement of vehicles
Wikipedia - Training Band of the Bundeswehr -- Branch of the German army concerned with military music
Wikipedia - Transportation Corps -- United States Army branch
Wikipedia - Trapania miltabrancha -- Species of mollusc
Wikipedia - Travis Branch -- Railroad branch in Staten Island, New York
Wikipedia - Tree house -- Platform or building constructed around, next to or among the trunk or branches of one or more mature trees while above ground level
Wikipedia - Trentham Park branch line -- Short railway branch line in Staffordshire, England
Wikipedia - Trial advocacy -- Branch of knowledge concerned with making attorneys and other advocates more effective in trial proceedings
Wikipedia - Trichobranchidae -- Family of annelids
Wikipedia - Tsezic languages -- One of the seven main branches of Northeast Caucasian language family
Wikipedia - T-theory -- Branch of graph theory
Wikipedia - Tunisian Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Tunisia's military
Wikipedia - Turkey Branch (Tussocky Branch tributary) -- Stream in Delaware, USA
Wikipedia - Turkish Air Force -- Air warfare branch of Turkey's armed forces
Wikipedia - Turkish Naval Forces -- naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces
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Branch Rickey ::: Born: December 20, 1881; Died: December 9, 1965; Occupation: Baseball player;
Michelle Branch ::: Born: July 2, 1983; Occupation: Singer-songwriter;
James Branch Cabell ::: Born: April 14, 1879; Died: May 5, 1958; Occupation: Author;
Nicolas Malebranche ::: Born: August 6, 1638; Died: October 13, 1715; Occupation: Philosopher;
Taylor Branch ::: Born: January 14, 1947; Occupation: Author;
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Superman: The Animated Series (1996 - 2000) - Branching out from their work in the Batman mythos, Bruce Timm and Paul Dini created this masterpiece, at once an extensive of their earlier work, and a unique creation in its own right. It is perhaps the greatest adaptation of the comics into dynamic medium, just as its predecessor, "Batman: TAS",...
The Montel Williams Show (1991 - 2008) - Originally similar to a tabloid talk show, the Montel Williams Show later branched out into a more inspirational talk show. One of Willaims' most popular guests, psychic Sylvia Browne would appear giving spiritual advice and a look into the afterlife. The show's showcase of Browne led it to win the...
Dengeki Sentai Changeman (1985 - 1986) - After already conquering hundreds of planets, the Great Star League Gozma sets its sights onto Earth. To defend the lands in such a great crisis, the military begins a special branch known as the Earth Defense Force, comprised of elite members from all areas of the military. Under the supervision of...
Enos (1980 - 1981) - When he captured two notorious badguys back in Hazzard County, bumpkin deputy Enos was invited to join a Special Branch of the Los Angeles Police. His country manners annoy his black partner Turk and Lt. Broggi, but he functions as a cop nevertheless. Narration is in the form of letters home to Enos...
Alias (2001 - 2006) - Sydney Bristow is a young, hot, athletic, college graduate who was recruited her freshman year as a Secret Agent for SD-6, a top-secret branch of the C.I.A. After a few years, after Sydney confides her lifestyle to her boyfriend, the evil head of SD-6, Arvin Sloan, has him killed. Sydney learns that...
GLAAD Media Awards (2005 - Current) - The GLAAD Media Award is an accolade bestowed by GLAAD to recognize and honor various branches of the media for their outstanding representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives. In addition to film and television, the Awards also...
Star 80(1983) - Based on a true story, this is the tale of ill-fated Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway) and her relationship with the abusive Paul Snider (Eric Roberts), who both launches her career and aspires to keep her from branching out to do things herself, ending in a murder-suicide.
Poison Ivy: The New Seduction(1997) - The third installment in the meretricious "Poison Ivy" series explores a different branch of the Ivy family tree. Jaime Pressly stars as Violet, sister of Ivy, who returns to the home of the Greer family. As little girls, Violet and Ivy were traumatized when they were forcibly taken away from the Gr...
Office Christmas Party(2016) - When the CEO tries to close her hard-partying brother's branch, he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) ::: 7.0/10 -- En duva satt p en gren och funderade p tillvaron (original title) -- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Poster -- Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes. Director: Roy Andersson Writer:
BlacKkKlansman (2018) ::: 7.5/10 -- R | 2h 15min | Biography, Comedy, Crime | 10 August 2018 (USA) -- Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. Director: Spike Lee Writers:
Bodyguard ::: TV-MA | 1h | Crime, Drama, Thriller | TV Series (2018) -- A contemporary thriller featuring the Royalty and Specialist Protection Branch of London's Metropolitan Police Service. Creator: Jed Mercurio
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) ::: 6.9/10 -- R | 1h 57min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 21 August 2009 (USA) -- Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus. Director: Kari Skogland Writers: Martin McGartland (inspired by the book "Fifty Dead Man Walking"),
From Beginning to End (2009) ::: 6.6/10 -- Do Comeo ao Fim (original title) -- From Beginning to End Poster Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual. Director: Aluizio Abranches Writer: Aluizio Abranches
Hawaii Five-O ::: TV-PG | 1h | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (19681980) -- The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett. Creator:
Labyrinth of Lies (2014) ::: 7.3/10 -- Im Labyrinth des Schweigens (original title) -- Labyrinth of Lies Poster -- A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II. Director: Giulio Ricciarelli Writers:
Space Force ::: TV-MA | 30min | Comedy | TV Series (2020- ) Episode Guide 20 episodes Space Force Poster -- The people tasked with creating a sixth branch of the armed services: The Space Force. Creators: Steve Carell, Greg Daniels
Space Force ::: TV-MA | 30min | Comedy | TV Series (2020 ) -- The people tasked with creating a sixth branch of the armed services: The Space Force. Creators: Steve Carell, Greg Daniels
Special ::: TV-MA | 15min | Comedy, Drama | TV Series (2019 ) -- A young gay man with cerebral palsy branches out from his insular existence in hopes of finally going after the life he wants. Creator: Ryan O'Connell
The Office ::: TV-MA | 30min | Comedy, Drama | TV Series (20012003) -- The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager David Brent as they continue their daily lives. Creators:
Trolls (2016) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 32min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 4 November 2016 (USA) -- After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the curmudgeonly Branch set off on a journey to rescue her friends. Directors: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn (co-director) Writers:
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ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka -- -- Madhouse -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Mystery Police Drama Fantasy Seinen -- ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka -- ACCA—a national body of the kingdom of Dowa that provides public services to the citizens of the country—was established as part of the peace settlement between the king of Dowa and the 13 states of the country during a revolt. One hundred years later, Dowa is in a period of unprecedented peace, due in part to the ACCA system. However, rumors of a coup d'état start to surface. Jean Otus, the second-in-command of the inspection department of ACCA, is charged with inspecting all 13 state branches. What will he discover as he performs his audit? -- -- Intriguing and mysterious, ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka is a politically-themed mystery that reveals a world of diverse cultures and lifestyles, with intricate connections between its characters, as the truth of the coup d'état slowly unfolds. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 126,432 7.68
Akame ga Kill! -- -- White Fox -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Shounen -- Akame ga Kill! Akame ga Kill! -- Night Raid is the covert assassination branch of the Revolutionary Army, an uprising assembled to overthrow Prime Minister Honest, whose avarice and greed for power has led him to take advantage of the child emperor's inexperience. Without a strong and benevolent leader, the rest of the nation is left to drown in poverty, strife, and ruin. Though the Night Raid members are all experienced killers, they understand that taking lives is far from commendable and that they will likely face retribution as they mercilessly eliminate anyone who stands in the revolution's way. -- -- This merry band of assassins' newest member is Tatsumi, a naïve boy from a remote village who had embarked on a journey to help his impoverished hometown and was won over by not only Night Raid's ideals, but also their resolve. Akame ga Kill! follows Tatsumi as he fights the Empire and comes face-to-face with powerful weapons, enemy assassins, challenges to his own morals and values, and ultimately, what it truly means to be an assassin with a cause. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 1,503,646 7.50
Chrno Crusade -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Historical Romance Shounen Supernatural -- Chrno Crusade Chrno Crusade -- The 1920s was a decade of great change and upheaval, with monstrous demons appearing across America. To combat this menace, the holy organization known as the Order of Magdalene was established. The organization's New York branch is home to the young and reckless Sister Rosette Christopher, as well as her partner Chrno. Tasked with the extermination of demonic threats, the renowned team is excellent at their job, despite causing extensive collateral damage on their missions. -- -- However, both Rosette and Chrno are driven by their dark pasts. Through exterminating demons, Rosette hopes to find her lost brother Joshua who was taken by the sinner and demon, Aion, with whom Chrno also shares a bloody history. The two of them must fight off the increasingly dangerous demonic menace and discover its source, while continuing to search for the truth behind Joshua's disappearance. -- -- 200,692 7.65
Chrno Crusade -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Manga -- Action Demons Historical Romance Shounen Supernatural -- Chrno Crusade Chrno Crusade -- The 1920s was a decade of great change and upheaval, with monstrous demons appearing across America. To combat this menace, the holy organization known as the Order of Magdalene was established. The organization's New York branch is home to the young and reckless Sister Rosette Christopher, as well as her partner Chrno. Tasked with the extermination of demonic threats, the renowned team is excellent at their job, despite causing extensive collateral damage on their missions. -- -- However, both Rosette and Chrno are driven by their dark pasts. Through exterminating demons, Rosette hopes to find her lost brother Joshua who was taken by the sinner and demon, Aion, with whom Chrno also shares a bloody history. The two of them must fight off the increasingly dangerous demonic menace and discover its source, while continuing to search for the truth behind Joshua's disappearance. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Funimation -- 200,692 7.65
Deadman Wonderland: Akai Knife Tsukai -- -- Manglobe -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Shounen -- Deadman Wonderland: Akai Knife Tsukai Deadman Wonderland: Akai Knife Tsukai -- Two years after the catastrophic tidal wave that swept over Japan, police officer Kiyomasa Senji is trying to make the world a safer place. Using his Branch of Sin powers, he stops criminals in whatever ways he can. After rescuing a boy named Izuru Tsukiyoshi from a gang called Goreless Peace, the conflict between Kiyomasa and his adversaries heats up rapidly, to the point of being explosive. -- -- Offering a glimpse into the past of the future Deadman, the story follows Senji, helping to further develop the reasoning that drives his actions later in life. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- OVA - Oct 8, 2011 -- 119,108 6.97
Deadman Wonderland: Akai Knife Tsukai -- -- Manglobe -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Horror Shounen -- Deadman Wonderland: Akai Knife Tsukai Deadman Wonderland: Akai Knife Tsukai -- Two years after the catastrophic tidal wave that swept over Japan, police officer Kiyomasa Senji is trying to make the world a safer place. Using his Branch of Sin powers, he stops criminals in whatever ways he can. After rescuing a boy named Izuru Tsukiyoshi from a gang called Goreless Peace, the conflict between Kiyomasa and his adversaries heats up rapidly, to the point of being explosive. -- -- Offering a glimpse into the past of the future Deadman, the story follows Senji, helping to further develop the reasoning that drives his actions later in life. -- -- OVA - Oct 8, 2011 -- 119,108 6.97
Galaxy Angel -- -- Madhouse -- 24 eps -- Game -- Comedy Sci-Fi -- Galaxy Angel Galaxy Angel -- The Angel Brigade, an elite branch of the Transbaal Empire military, are assigned to search for The Lost Technology, mysterious items from the past that hold unknown powers. Led by the soon to retire Colonel Volcott O' Huey, the Angel Brigade travel to different planets using their specially designed Emblem Frame ships to search for Lost Technology. Unfortunately, they usually mess up somehow and end up getting into all kinds of weird and troublesome situations. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Nozomi Entertainment -- 24,387 7.02
God Eater Prologue -- -- ufotable -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Fantasy Military Sci-Fi -- God Eater Prologue God Eater Prologue -- Driven to the verge of extinction by "Aragami," a race of all-devouring monsters, humanity makes its last stand in isolated points of resistance. Invulnerable to conventional damage, only "Oracle Cell" weapons—composed of the same matter which makes up Aragami—can kill these creatures. -- -- However, due to their god-like ability to adapt, the Aragami soon develop further immunity. Having no other hope of fending off the enemy, the remnants of human governments decide to detonate a nuclear reactor and wipe out the monsters facing Eurasia. -- -- The soldiers tasked with this mission are aided by three "God Eaters" dispatched from the Fenrir Far East Branch, an organization controlling what remains of Japan. The state-of-the-art weapons they wield, called God Arcs, are supposedly capable of piercing through Aragami skin and tearing their cores out, pulverizing the monsters. These mighty warriors may just be humanity's last hope of fending off the Aragami threat and averting total extinction. -- -- Special - Sep 28, 2009 -- 31,718 6.68
Gunsmith Cats -- -- OLM -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Police Seinen -- Gunsmith Cats Gunsmith Cats -- In the dangerous suburbs of Chicago, skilled bounty hunters Irene "Rally" Vincent and "Minnie" May Hopkins run Gunsmith Cats, a firearms store of questionable legality. One day, Bill Collins, an agent for the Chicago branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, blackmails Rally and May into working with him on a case. The stakes are high, but Rally’s gunmanship and May’s knowledge of explosives are unmatched. As Rally and May unravel the secrets of the case, the two will need to use guns and grenades while being faster, stronger, and better than everyone else in order to stay alive. -- -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, AnimEigo -- OVA - Nov 1, 1995 -- 35,022 7.28
Kagaku Kyuujo-tai TechnoVoyager -- -- Toei Animation -- 18 eps -- - -- Action Adventure Mecha Sci-Fi Space -- Kagaku Kyuujo-tai TechnoVoyager Kagaku Kyuujo-tai TechnoVoyager -- Thunderbirds 2086 takes place roughly twenty years after the original series (generally accepted as taking place around 2065, though other dates are seen on screen) and chronicles the adventures of the Thunderbirds, a rescue team working for the International Rescue Organisation. Unlike the original International Rescue, which was small-scale and family-oriented, the IRO is a vast organisation comprising numerous branches and overseen by the Federation, the 2086 equivalent of the United Nations. No direct historical connections are identified between the two series, but it can be assumed that the original International Rescue evolved into its 2086 incarnation over those thirty years. The Tracy family are not mentioned in the animated series. In the animated series, the actual team is known as the Thunderbirds, whilst in the original series the name merely referred to their vehicles. The animated series is otherwise very similar to the original, with most episodes revolving around a natural or man-made disaster which the Thunderbirds team must investigate and help resolve. Unlike the original series, Thunderbirds 2086 also has an on-going story arc revolving around a breakaway independence group known as the Shadow Axis, led by the mysterious Star Crusher. There is a heavy intimation in the series that Star Crusher is not human and may be some kind of alien entity. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- 829 6.07
Kakegurui×× -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Game Mystery Psychological School Shounen -- Kakegurui×× Kakegurui×× -- As Yumeko Jabami's fame grows and the reputation of the student council dwindles, Kirari Momobami decides to revolutionize the group. To this end, she announces an election for its next president. The rules are simple: each student in the school receives one chip. Whoever has the most chips by the end of thirty days becomes both the new president and the head of the Momobami clan. -- -- Upon receiving news of this development, the Momobami branch families spring into action. Eleven transfer students arrive at Hyakkao Private Academy, each aiming to lead both the school and the Momobami clan. Equipped with unique talents, they will compete to get as many chips as possible—but their chips are not the only things on the line. -- -- 480,876 7.28
Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0 -- -- Manglobe -- 1 ep -- - -- Comedy Shounen Supernatural -- Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0 Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0 -- Short prologue OVA, bundled with manga volume vol.10. -- -- Elsie receives from Dokurou Skull, hell's branch chief of "counter measures", the task to go on earth and capture evil spirits that have escaped from hell. -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- OVA - Sep 17, 2010 -- 55,659 6.91
Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0 -- -- Manglobe -- 1 ep -- - -- Comedy Shounen Supernatural -- Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0 Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai: Flag 0 -- Short prologue OVA, bundled with manga volume vol.10. -- -- Elsie receives from Dokurou Skull, hell's branch chief of "counter measures", the task to go on earth and capture evil spirits that have escaped from hell. -- OVA - Sep 17, 2010 -- 55,659 6.91
Kuroshitsuji Picture Drama -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Demons Supernatural -- Kuroshitsuji Picture Drama Kuroshitsuji Picture Drama -- It is almost Valentine's Day, and grim reaper Grell Sutcliff finally receives the opportunity to become the heroine of her very own harem battle. Whilst making chocolates for the demonic butler Sebastian Michaelis, Grell's preparations are interrupted by a whole host of handsome men smashing through the window. -- -- First to appear is fellow reaper William T. Spears, who brings nothing but harsh reprimands. Next, however, the man of the hour appears—Sebastian Michaelis. The room begins to fill up even more, with Grell's unconventional harem expanding to include a pair of Phantomhive servants; the English branch manager of a Chinese trading company, Lau; the promiscuous Viscount Druitt; the Queen's butler, Ash Landers; and even the royal master-servant pair, Prince Soma and Agni. And when The Undertaker appears as "The Valentine's Fairy," this chaotic gathering becomes a lot more romantic. -- -- Special - Jan 31, 2010 -- 19,464 7.12
Last Period: Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Magic -- Last Period: Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari Last Period: Owarinaki Rasen no Monogatari -- "Period" is how magic users called who beat "Spiral"—monsters that were summoned from isolation. Due to the rise of these beings, 14-year-old apprentice Period Haru, who is a part of the Eighth Arc-end Division, is called to break the cycle and cast himself into the endless battle. However, a mysterious thievery occurred and sank the division into bankruptcy, forcing Haru and his other comrades have to leave their headquarters. To rebuild a branch, they have to overcome quest after quest. -- -- (Source: MAL News) -- 31,504 6.43
Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Music School Slice of Life -- Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow -- Following the closure of Uranohoshi Girls' High School, the third-year students—Dia Kurosawa, Kanan Matsuura, and Mari Ohara—have just graduated, leaving Aqours with solely the first and second-years. While searching for a new place the remaining members can use to practice, they decide to visit the new school they will soon enroll in. However, to their surprise, the building seems to be abandoned! It turns out that due to the school board's worries regarding how the freshly transferred Uranohoshi students may burden the clubs, they were instead sent to a branch school. This sets Aqours on a new goal—to prove that Uranohoshi students are serious in their clubs as well. Meanwhile, another problem arises: the third-years have unexpectedly gone missing during their graduation trip! -- -- Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow revolves around the remaining Aqours members as they venture out to search for their missing seniors and, at the same time, try to figure out a way to change the new school's mind. -- -- Movie - Jan 4, 2019 -- 29,822 7.61
Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Specials -- -- AIC Build -- 4 eps -- Light novel -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Specials Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai Specials -- The true end arc of Ore no Imouto. These four episodes branch out after the 11th episode of the main TV series and present an alternative version to the end of the TV series. These episodes contrast with the good end arc of the TV series, which was an original ending written for the anime, and instead closely follows the original story from the light novels. -- ONA - Feb 22, 2011 -- 165,230 7.40
Parasite Dolls -- -- AIC -- 3 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Police Mecha -- Parasite Dolls Parasite Dolls -- A secret unit of the AD Police, known as Branch, specializes in crimes involving humanoid robots called 'Boomers'. Branch officer Buzz must cope with having a Boomer for a partner, while officer Michaelson finds the line between human and robot to be a thin one. Together they serve to protect a world that is slowly deconstructing around them. Set in the Bubblegum Crisis universe. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks -- OVA - May 22, 2003 -- 13,078 6.57
Tokyo Ravens -- -- 8bit -- 24 eps -- Light novel -- Action Comedy Supernatural Magic Romance School -- Tokyo Ravens Tokyo Ravens -- Onmyoudou magic was once a powerful technique used by the Japanese during the second World War in order for them to gain the upper hand and establish their nation as a formidable force. But Japan was quickly defeated after the revered onmyouji Yakou Tsuchimikado caused the "Great Spiritual Disaster," an event which plagues Tokyo to this very day. As a result of this mishap, the Onmyou Agency was established in order to exorcise further spiritual disasters and combat the demons that would make their way into the world. -- -- Now, Onmyoudou has become far more modern, simplified, and refined for use in a wide variety of applications such as medicine and technology. However, not everyone is able to utilize the magic, as is the case with Harutora, a member of the Tsuchimikado's branch family. Despite an old promise to protect Natsume, the heir of the Tsuchimikado's main family and Yakou's supposed reincarnation, as her familiar, Harutora has no talent and chooses to live a normal life instead. But when a prominent member of the Onmyou Agency attempts to recreate the same experiment which led to Japan's downfall, he decides to make good on his word and fight by Natsume's side. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 388,582 7.51
Vassalord. -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Comedy Fantasy Mystery Shounen Ai Supernatural Vampire -- Vassalord. Vassalord. -- Charley, a cyborg vampire who does the Vatican's dirty work, is the thrall of the local vampire playboy Johnny Rayflo. As the two fight crime—and each other—hilarity, violence and sacrilege ensue! But can Charley resist his own desperate cravings for blood? Find out as the devilish duo go up against a childlike vampire princess, a mysterious branch of the Unitarian Church...and one another. -- -- (Source: Tokyopop) -- OVA - Mar 15, 2013 -- 28,674 6.83
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Branchport, New Jersey
Branchport, New York
Branch predictor
Branch president
Branch retinal artery occlusion
Branch retinal vein occlusion
Branch Rickey
Branch Rickey Jr.
Branch table
Branch T. Archer
Branch target predictor
Branch theory
Branchton
Branch Township
Branch Township, Michigan
Branch trace
Branchus (lover of Apollo)
Branchview, Queensland
Branch Village, Rhode Island
Branchville
Branchville, Alabama
Branchville, Connecticut
Branchville, Indiana
Branchville, New Jersey
Branchville, South Carolina
Branchville, Texas
Branchwork
Breastworks Branch
Breathe (Michelle Branch song)
Brentford branch line
Brilliant Branch
Brownbranch, Missouri
Brown-spotted nudibranch
Brunswick Branch
Buccal branches of the facial nerve
Buck Branch (Deer Creek tributary)
Buckie and Portessie Branch
Buck Run (West Branch Brandywine Creek tributary)
Buck Run (West Branch Conococheague Creek tributary)
Bucksport Branch
Bumble Hole Branch Canal
Bundle branch block
Bundle branches
Buntingford branch line
Bury and Thetford (Swaffham Branch)
Bushwick Branch
Butetown branch line
Butler Branch (Indiana)
Cadet branch
Cadet branch of the House of Frakn
Cahuenga Branch Library
Calais Branch
Calcaneal branches
Calcaneal nerve branches
Cambridge and St Ives branch line
Camp Branch (Big Creek tributary)
Camp Branch (Flat Creek tributary)
Camp Branch (West Fork Clear Creek tributary)
Canada Dock Branch
Capitol Hill Branch Library
Capon and North Branch Turnpike
Cardiac branches of the vagus nerve
Castlecliff Branch
Celiac branches of vagus nerve
Central Branch
Cermak branch
Cervical branch of the facial nerve
Chaplains Branch
Chard branch line
Charles Branch
Chartiers Branch
Cheadle branch line
Cherry Run (South Branch Bowman Creek tributary)
Chertsey branch line
Chesham branch
Chessington branch line
Chester Creek Branch
Chestnut Hill Branch
Chicago Lawn Branch
Chief marshal of the branch
Chilia branch
Chingford branch line
Chocolate-chip nudibranch
Christopher Branch
Christopher Branch (filmmaker)
Church of Jesus Christ (Zion's Branch)
Circumflex branch of left coronary artery
Cirencester branch line
Clearance Diving Branch (RAN)
Clear Branch
Clearbranch, Tennessee
Clevedon branch line
Cliff Branch
Cloie Branch
Coal Branch, New Brunswick
Coalport branch line
Coal Run (North Branch Buffalo Creek tributary)
CoimbatoreMettupalayam branch line
Coley branch line
Colic branch of ileocolic artery
Collin Abranches
Communications and Electronics Branch
Companies Investigation Branch
Couch v Branch Investments (1969) Ltd
Coudekerque-Branche
Creedmoor Branch
Crime Branch (film)
Crowned nudibranch
Crown King Branch
Cryptobranchoidea
Culp Branch
Cutaneous branches of the radial nerve
Cutaneous branch of musculospiral nerve
Cutaneous branch of the obturator nerve
Czech branch of the House of Thurn and Taxis
Danbury Branch
Dan Ryan branch
Darvel Branch
Daud KhelLakki Marwat Branch Line
Dave Branch
David Branch
David Branch (fighter)
David Malebranche
Dawn Brancheau
Dbranche!
Debranching enzyme
DeCelis Branch
Deep branch of medial circumflex femoral artery
Deep branch of radial nerve
Deep branch of ulnar nerve
Deep Hollow (West Branch Fishing Creek tributary)
Deep palmar branch of ulnar artery
Defence Service Medal with Laurel Branch
Deion Branch
Descending branch
Descending branch of occipital artery
Devils Branch
Devizes branch line
DharmavaramPakala branch line
Dibranchus atlanticus
Digastric branch of facial nerve
Dinosaur nudibranch
Distillery Loop and Cherry Street branch
Doe Lea branch line
Dolphinton branch
Dorchester Branch
Doriprismatica dendrobranchia
Dorsal branch of ulnar nerve
Dorsal carpal branch of the radial artery
Dorsal carpal branch of the ulnar artery
Draft:Joseph Gerald Branch II
Drosophila endobranchia
Dry Branch Creek (Tohickon Creek tributary)
Dry Branch (Cypress Creek tributary)
Dry Branch, Georgia
Dry Branch (Indian Creek tributary)
Dry Branch (Terre Bleue Creek tributary)
Dunback and Makareao Branches
Dwarf warty pleurobranch
Dyserth branch line
Earthly Branches
East 63rd branch
East Branch
East Branch Pocwock Stream
East Branch Reservoir
East Junction Branch
East Long Branch, New Jersey
East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library
Edgewater Branch
Educational and Training Services Branch
Edward Thomas Branch
EklakhiBalurghat branch line
Elasmobranchii
Elizabeth Branch
Elizabeth L. Branch
Elk Run (West Branch Fishing Creek tributary)
Elm Branch
Elm Branch (East Fork Tebo Creek tributary)
Elongate nothobranch
Embranchement de Chtillon
Embranchement de Colmar
Emmett Forest Branch
Enfield Town branch line
Epsom Downs Branch
EryholmeRichmond branch line
Esophageal branches of left gastric artery
Esophageal branches of thoracic part of aorta
Eubranchus conicla
Eubranchus exiguus
Eubranchus rupium
Euopisthobranchia
Evergreen Branch
Executive Branch of Colombia
Executive branch of the government of Honduras
Executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico
Executive Branch Reform Act of 2007
Eye Branch
Eyreton Branch
Fairlie Branch
Fall Branch, Tennessee
Faringdon branch
Farmers Branch, Texas
Far Rockaway Branch
Favonigobius melanobranchus
Fawley branch line
FBI Intelligence Branch
FBI National Security Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Birmingham Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Jacksonville Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Miami Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Nashville Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta New Orleans Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Cincinnati Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Pittsburgh Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Baltimore Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Charlotte Branch
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch
Felipe de Neve Branch Library
Felixstowe branch line
Fenerbahe S.K. (Boxing Branch)
Fisher Branch Airport
Fisher Branch, Manitoba
Fisher Branch (Reddish Branch tributary)
Flat Branch, North Carolina
Fleetwood branch line
Flowery Branch, Georgia
Foreign Branches of Fondo de Cultura Econmica
Forl Branch of the University of Bologna
Fort Branch
Fort Branch, Indiana
Fortrose Branch
Foss Islands branch line
Four Branches of the Mabinogi
Fourth branch of government
Framlingham branch
Frances Perkins Branch Library
Frederick Branch
Garda Crime and Security Branch
GardenvilleNorth Branch Rural Historic District
Garfield Park branch
Gary LaBranche
Gasflame nudibranch
General of the branch
Genital branch of genitofemoral nerve
George Branche
Ghost nudibranch
Gladstone Branch
Glandular branches
Glandular branches of facial artery
Glandular branches of the thyroid artery
Glasson Dock branch line
Glen Afton Branch
Glenn Branch
Glycogen branching enzyme
Glycogen-branching enzyme deficiency
Glycogen debranching enzyme
Goniobranchus albonares
Goniobranchus albopunctatus
Goniobranchus albopustulosus
Goniobranchus alius
Goniobranchus annulatus
Goniobranchus aureomarginatus
Goniobranchus aureopurpureus
Goniobranchus aurigerus
Goniobranchus bimaensis
Goniobranchus bombayanus
Goniobranchus cavae
Goniobranchus cazae
Goniobranchus charlottae
Goniobranchus coi
Goniobranchus collingwoodi
Goniobranchus conchyliatus
Goniobranchus daphne
Goniobranchus decorus
Goniobranchus epicurius
Goniobranchus fidelis
Goniobranchus galactos
Goniobranchus geminus
Goniobranchus geometricus
Goniobranchus gleniei
Goniobranchus heatherae
Goniobranchus hintuanensis
Goniobranchus hunterae
Goniobranchus kitae
Goniobranchus kuniei
Goniobranchus lekker
Goniobranchus leopardus
Goniobranchus loringi
Goniobranchus mandapamensis
Goniobranchus multimaculosus
Goniobranchus obsoletus
Goniobranchus petechialis
Goniobranchus preciosus
Goniobranchus pruna
Goniobranchus reticulatus
Goniobranchus roboi
Goniobranchus rubrocornutus
Goniobranchus rufomaculatus
Goniobranchus setoensis
Goniobranchus sinensis
Goniobranchus splendidus
Goniobranchus tasmaniensis
Goniobranchus tennentanus
Goniobranchus tinctorius
Goniobranchus trimarginatus
Goniobranchus tritos
Goniobranchus tumuliferus
Goniobranchus verrieri
Goniobranchus vibratus
Goniobranchus woodwardae
Goodbye to You (Michelle Branch song)
Governor Branch
Greenford branch line
Green Line A branch
Green Line B branch
Green Line C branch
Green Line D branch
Green Line E branch
Greenwich Park branch line
GudivadaMachilipatnam branch line
Gugera Branch Canal
Gumbranch, Georgia
Guy Branch
Haines City Branch
Hall Green Branch
Hamilton Branch
Hamilton Branch, California
Hampton Court branch line
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Harris Branch
Harris Branch (Brazil Creek tributary)
Haw Branch (Cane Creek tributary)
Haw Branch (disambiguation)
Hawkhurst branch line
Hayling Island branch line
Hazelwood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Health Products and Food Branch
Hellhole Branch
Hempstead Branch
Henley branch line
Henry E. Legler Regional Branch of the Chicago Public Library
Hertford East branch line
Heterobranchia
Hexabranchus
Hexabranchus morsomus
Highland branch
Highworth branch line
Hincaster branch line
HMCS Long Branch
Hog Branch
Hollinwood Branch Canal
Holmfirth branch line
Holywell branch line
Homewood Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Honam Expressway Branch
Honest leftmost branch
Hoojah Branch Site
Hopeless Romantic (Michelle Branch album)
Horizontal branch
Hull and Doncaster Branch
Humboldt Park branch
HyderabadBadin Branch Line
HyderabadKhokhrapar Branch Line
Hyperbranched aminosilica
Ileal branch of ileocolic artery
Ilfracombe branch line
Iliac branch of iliolumbar artery
Index of branches of science
Indianapolis Public Library Branch No. 3
Indirect branch
Infantry Branch
Inferior posterior nasal branches of greater palatine nerve
Information Branch
Infrapatellar branch of saphenous nerve
Ingleton branch line
Inkspot nudibranch
Intelligence Branch
Internal nasal branches of infraorbital nerve
International branch campus
Iric Branch
Iridescent nudibranch
IslamabadMuzaffarabad Branch Line
Islamic Azad University, Ahar Branch
Islamic Azad University, Anar Branch
Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch
Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan Branch
Islamic Azad University, Astara Branch
Islamic Azad University, Bandar Anzali Branch
Islamic Azad University, Birjand Branch
Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd Branch
Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
Islamic Azad University, Damavand Branch
Islamic Azad University, Farahan Branch
Islamic Azad University, Garmsar Branch
Islamic Azad University, Gorgan Branch
Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch
Islamic Azad University, Jahrom Branch
Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch
Islamic Azad University, Kashan Branch
Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Branch
Islamic Azad University, Khomeyni Shahr Branch
Islamic Azad University, Komijan Branch
Islamic Azad University, Lahijan Branch
Islamic Azad University, Mahshahr Branch
Islamic Azad University, Majlesi Branch
Islamic Azad University, Malard Branch
Islamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch
Islamic Azad University, Masjed Soleyman Branch
Islamic Azad University, Meymeh Branch
Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch
Islamic Azad University, Nishabur Branch
Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
Islamic Azad University, Parand Branch
Islamic Azad University, Rasht Branch
Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch
Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch Faculty of Agriculture
Islamic Azad University, Sabzevar Branch
Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch
Islamic Azad University, Shahinshahr Branch
Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch
Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e-Qods Branch
Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e-Rey Branch
Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Branch
Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch
Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch
Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Science and Research Branch
Islamic Azad University, Tafresh Branch
Islamic Azad University, Tehran Dental Branch
Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch
Islamic Azad University, UAE Branch
Islamic Azad University, West Tehran Branch
Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch
James Branch
James Branch Cabell
James Branch (Huzzah Creek tributary)
James "Plunky" Branch
Jefferson Branch Library, Los Angeles
Joaquim Abranches
John Branch
John C. Fremont Branch Library, Los Angeles
John Muir Branch Library, Los Angeles
Johns Branch
Johns Branch (Sandy Creek tributary)
Johnson Branch
Johnsonville Branch
Joint compatibility branch and bound
Jones Branch
Jones Branch (Crooked Creek tributary)
Jones Branch (Pee Dee Creek tributary)
Jordan Branch
Jordan Branch (Bee Creek tributary)
Jordan Branch (Saint Johns Creek tributary)
Joseph Branch
Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Judge Advocate General Branch (Pakistan)
Jungang Expressway Branch
Jungbu Naeryuk Expressway Branch
Justice Branch
Kapuni Branch
Kemp Town branch line
Kenpeitai East District Branch
Kenpeitai West District Branch
Kenwood branch
Kern Branch, Beale Memorial Library
Kerry branch line
Khamenei's 8-Article Command to the Chiefs of Branches
KhanewalWazirabad Branch Line
Kikambala nothobranch
Kingsbridge branch line
Kingston Branch
Kirkby branch line
Kurow Branch
LaBranche & Co
LahoreWagah Branch Line
Lalgola and Gede branch lines
Land Bank of Taiwan, Tainan Branch
Langton Dock Branch
La Nouvelle branch
Lansalson branch line
Lateral cutaneous branch
Lateral nasal branch of facial artery
Laurel Branch Library
Laurel Run (Bennett Branch Sinnemahoning Creek tributary)
Laurel Run (West Branch Fishing Creek tributary)
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch
Lawrenceville Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Lead Branch, Kentucky
Lebanon and Tremont Branch
Lebranche mullet
Left bundle branch block
Lefthand Branch, Queensland
Legal Branch
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2015
Lemon pleurobranch
Lernaeocera branchialis
Les Branchs Saint-Tropez
Librairie Avant-Garde (Mount Wutai Branch)
Library branch
Lick Branch
Lick Branch (Huntington Creek tributary)
Lick Branch (McIntosh Branch tributary)
Lick Branch (McKenzie Creek tributary)
Lick Branch (Petite Saline Creek tributary)
Lick Branch (Wolf Creek tributary)
Lincoln Heights Branch Library
Lingual branch
Lingual branches of glossopharyngeal nerve
Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch
List of Brooklyn Public Library branches
List of Elasmobranch cestodes
List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
List of engineering branches
List of Federal Reserve branches
List of Mahamevnawa branches
List of New York Public Library branches
List of Queens Public Library branches
List of Special Branch episodes
List of Toronto Public Library branches
List of U.S. executive branch czars
Litobranchus
Little Branch Lake (Ontario)
Little Creek (East Branch Tunkhannock Creek tributary)
Llanfyllin Branch
LodhranRaiwind Branch Line
Logan Square branch
Long Beach Branch
Long Branch
Long branch attraction
Long Branch Cubans
Long Branch (Elkhorn Creek tributary)
Long Branch (film)
Long Branch Loop
Long Branch, New Jersey
Long Branch Park
Long Branch, Pennsylvania
Longbranch Pennywhistle (album)
Long Branch Plantation
Long Branch Police Department (New Jersey)
Long Branch Saloon gunfight
Long Branch Stakes
Long Branch, Toronto
Long Branch (Troublesome Creek tributary)
Long MelfordBury St Edmunds branch line
Lorenzo Branchetti
Louis J. Bailey Branch Library
Louisville Free Public Library, Crescent Hill Branch
Louisville Free Public Library, Western Branch
Love on a Branch Line
Lower Heterobranchia
Lumbar branch of iliolumbar artery
Lurgan Branch
Lyme Regis branch line
Lymington branch line
Malabar Branch Library
MalakwalKhushab Branch Line
Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Malaysian Special Branch
Malbranchea cinnamomea
Malebranche
Malebranche (Divine Comedy)
Malmesbury branch line
ManamaduraiRameswaram branch line
Mandela's nudibranch
Mangotsfield and Bath branch line
Manhattan Beach Branch
Manukau Branch
Marginal mandibular branch of the facial nerve
Marine Accident Investigation Branch
Marionia cyanobranchiata
Marlow branch line
Marquette Branch Prison
Marshal of the branch
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford
Math fab Mathonwy (branch)
Mayor of Long Branch, New Jersey
McCormickInternational Harvester Company Branch House
Medial calcaneal branches of the tibial nerve
Medial crural cutaneous branches of saphenous nerve
Mediastinal branches of thoracic part of aorta
Melli Bank, University of Tehran Branch
Melling Branch
Meningeal branch
Meningeal branches of spinal nerve
Meningeal branches of vertebral artery
Meningeal branch of occipital artery
Meningeal branch of the mandibular nerve
Meningeal branch of vagus nerve
Methven Branch
Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist Branch
Metropolitan Police Mounted Branch
Michael Branch
Michael Branch (academic)
Michael P. Branch
Michelle Branch
Michelle Branch discography
Microcotyle branchiostegi
Middle Branch Reservoir
Middle Branch Township, Michigan
Middlewich Branch
Mike Branch
Mike Mains & The Branches
Military branch
Mill Branch
Mill Branch (Clear Creek tributary)
Miller Brook (North Branch Mehoopany Creek tributary)
Minnow Branch (Bear Creek tributary)
Minnow Branch (Big Buffalo Creek tributary)
Minsterley branch line
Minyclupeoides dentibranchialus
Mnanzini nothobranch
Montauk Branch
Montrose Branch
Moorefield and North Branch Turnpike
Morecambe branch line
Morgan Branch
Morgan Branch (Little Third Fork tributary)
Mosaic pleurobranch
Moss Valley Branch
Mount Somers Branch
Mount Washington Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Moutohora Branch
Murupara Branch
Muscular branches of the radial nerve
Muscular branches of ulnar nerve
Museum of Archaeology, Tainan Branch of National Museum of Prehistory
Music Branch (Canadian Forces)
MysoreChamarajanagar branch line
NAACP New Orleans Branch
NadikudiMacherla branch line
NalhatiAzimganj branch line
Namhae Expressway Branch
Namhae Expressway Branch 1
Namhae Expressway Branch 2
NarkatiaganjBhikhna Thori branch line
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Marion Branch
National Tobacco Works Branch Stemmery
Naval Historical Branch
Naval Operations Branch
Negative branch reservations
Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal
Newark Branch
New Canaan Branch
New Portage Branch
Newtown Square Branch
New York Branch
New York Public Library Main Branch
Ngapara and Tokarahi Branches
Ngatapa Branch
Nicolas Malebranche
No. 4 Branch, Queensland
No. 5 Branch, Queensland
No. 6 Branch, Queensland
Normal Park branch
Norm Branch
North Branch
North Branch Correctional Institution
North Branch, Kansas
North Branch Land Trust
North Branch, Maryland
North Branch, Michigan
North Branch, Minnesota
North Branch Neshaminy Creek
North Branch, New Jersey
North Branch, Queensland
North Branch Reformed Church
North Branch Slippery Rock Creek
North Branch Township
North Branch Township, Michigan
Northern Branch
Northern Branch Corridor Project
North Long Branch, New Jersey
Northolt Branch Observatories
Northport Branch
North Shore Branch
Northwest Branch
Norwottuck Branch Rail Trail
Nothobranchiidae
Nothobranchius
Nothobranchius furzeri
Nothobranchius kafuensis
Nothobranchius kirki
Nothobranchius ocellatus
Nothobranchius rachovii
Nothobranchius robustus
Notobranchaeidae
Nudibranch
Occipital branch
Occipital branches of occipital artery
Occipital branch of posterior auricular artery
Oldcastle branch line
Old Strathcona Branch (Edmonton Public Library)
Olive branch
Olive Branch (disambiguation)
Olive Branch, Mississippi
Olive Branch, North Carolina
Olive Branch Petition
Oliver Branch
Omaha Public Library branches
Omobranchus banditus
Omobranchus elegans
Omobranchus elongatus
Omobranchus fasciolatus
Omobranchus ferox
Omobranchus germaini
Omobranchus mekranensis
Omobranchus obliquus
Omobranchus punctatus
Omobranchus rotundiceps
Omobranchus smithi
Omobranchus woodi
Omo-Love Branch
Onehunga Branch
Opalescent nudibranch
Operation Olive Branch
Opisthobranchia
Opua Branch
Orange-eyed nudibranch
Ormskirk branch line
Oscar Branch Colquitt
Ovarian branch of uterine artery
Over and Wharton branch line
Oxford Branch
Oxford Branch (New Zealand)
Oyster Bay Branch
Packs Branch (Paint Creek tributary)
Palmar branch
Palmar branch of the median nerve
Palmar branch of ulnar nerve
Palmar carpal branch of radial artery
Palmar carpal branch of ulnar artery
Palm branch
Pamela Branch
Pancreatic branches of splenic artery
Panther Branch
Panther Branch (Ottery Creek tributary)
Parietal branch
Penar branch line
Penn Branch
Pennsylvania Canal (North Branch Division)
Perforating branches of internal thoracic artery
Perineal branches of posterior femoral cutaneous nerve
Personnel branch
Petrosal branch of middle meningeal artery
Pharyngeal branch
Pharyngeal branches of glossopharyngeal nerve
Pharyngeal branch of vagus nerve
Piermont Branch
Pigeon House Branch
Pine Run (North Branch Neshaminy Creek tributary)
Pinks Branch
Plakobranchacea
Plakobranchidae
Plakobranchoidea
Plakobranchus
Plakobranchus ocellatus
Platydoris cinereobranchiata
Pleurobranchaea maculata
Pleurobranchaea meckeli
Pleurobranchidae
Pleurobranchus areolatus
Pleurobranchus forskalii
Plum Branch (Back Creek tributary)
Plum Branch (Miami Creek tributary)
Plum Branch, South Carolina
Pole Bridge Branch
Polybranchia
Poplar Branch, North Carolina
Port Jefferson Branch
Port Washington Branch
Possum Walk Creek (Mayes Branch tributary)
Postal Branch
Posterior branch
Posterior branches of cervical nerves
Posterior branches of sacral nerves
Posterior branches of the lumbar nerves
Posterior branches of thoracic nerves
Posterior branch of coccygeal nerve
Posterior branch of obturator nerve
Posterior gastric branches of posterior vagal trunk
Posterior scrotal branches
Posterior septal branches of sphenopalatine artery
Potomac Wharf Branch
Prees Branch Canal Nature Reserve
Prices Branch, Missouri
Princes End branch line
Princeton Branch
Principal branch
Prosobranchia
Protobranchia
Pseudobranch
Pseudobranchiomma longa
Pterobranchia
Pterobranchia mitochondrial code
Pterygoid branches of maxillary artery
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris
Ptychobranchus subtentum
Pulmonary branches of vagus nerve
Quaker Run (West Branch Mahantango Creek tributary)
QxBranch
Racepath Branch
RAF Legal Branch
Rail Accident Investigation Branch
Ravenswood branch
Reading Creek (West Branch Neshaminy Creek tributary)
Recurrent branch of the median nerve
Red Branch
Red Branch, Texas
Red-giant branch
Red Wharf Bay branch line
Renal branches of vagus nerve
Resource-dependent branching process
Restoration branches
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches
Richard Henry Dana Branch
Ridgacre Branch
Right-branching sentences in English
Right bundle branch block
Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Right marginal branch of right coronary artery
Roaring Branch
Robert Louis Stevenson Branch Library
Roberts Branch
Robinson Branch
Robinsons Branch
Rockaway Beach Branch
Rockaway Branch
Rock Branch
Rock Branch (Camp Creek tributary)
Rock Branch (Fivemile Creek tributary)
Rock Branch (Huzzah Creek tributary)
Rockland Branch
Rocky Branch
Rocky Branch (Burris Fork tributary)
Rocky Branch (Kennedy Creek tributary)
Rocky Branch (Mineral Fork tributary)
Rocky Branch (Panther Creek tributary)
Ronkonkoma Branch
Root and Branch petition
Roots and Branches
Ross Branch
Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch
Royal Air Force Marine Branch
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training Branch)
Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch
Royal Asiatic Society Korea Branch
Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association Northern Ireland Branch
Rudd Branch RidgeComplexes Nos. 1 and 2
Rumford Branch
Rupe Branch
Sag Harbor Branch
Salem Branch
SamalkotKakinada Port branch line
SamasataAmruka Branch Line
Samuel Branch
Sand Branch
Sand Branch (Prairie Creek tributary)
Sandom Branch
Sangla HillKundian Branch Line
SantragachiAmta branch line
Saphenous branch
Sarah Branch
S-Branch
SchneweideSpindlersfeld branch line
Schuylkill Branch
Scribbled nudibranch
Seaford branch line
Seaton branch line
Sea Transport Branch (Board of Trade)
Security Branch
Seddonville Branch
Sembrancher
Seminole Heights branch library
Seven-Branched Sword
Sfntu Gheorghe branch
Shahdara BaghChak Amru Branch Line
Shahdara BaghSangla Hill Branch Line
Sharpness branch line
Shaw Branch
Shellpot Branch
SheoraphuliBishnupur branch line
Shepperton branch line
Sher ShahKot Addu Branch Line
Shields Branch
Shingle Run (West Branch Run tributary)
ShorkotLalamusa Branch Line
ShorkotSheikhupura Branch Line
Siam Commercial Bank, Talat Noi Branch
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Silver Branch
Simple je Dbranche Bercy
Simpson Branch
Simpson Branch (Mineral Fork tributary)
Sinfin Branch Line
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself
Skelmersdale branch
Skirmish at Many Branch Point
Slip Run (West Branch Fishing Creek tributary)
Small scaled nothobranch
Smith Branch (Clear Fork tributary)
Smith Branch (Willow Fork tributary)
Snape branch line
Socit Gnrale, London Branch v Geys
Solomon Islands branch of The Scout Association
South Beach Branch
South Branch
South Branch, New Jersey
South Branch Slippery Rock Creek
South Branch Township
South Branch Township, Michigan
South Branch Wildlife Management Area
Southbridge Branch
Southbridge Branch, New Zealand
Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum
Southern Hempstead Branch
Southwest Branch
Special Branch
Special Branch (Bangladesh)
Special Branch Bureau
Special Branch (TV series)
Spiky nudibranch
Spirobranchus cariniferus
Spirobranchus giganteus
Spring Branch
Spring Branch, Houston
Springs Branch
Stainland branch
Stanmore branch line
Stapedial branch of posterior auricular artery
Sternocleidomastoid branch
Sternocleidomastoid branches of occipital artery
St John Branch
Stockport Branch Canal
Stock Yards branch
St. Olav's Medal with Oak Branch
Stourbridge Town branch line
Straight Branch (Deepwater Creek tributary)
Straight Branch (Spencer Creek tributary)
Strategic Support Branch
Striped nothobranch
Stylohyoid branch of facial nerve
Stylopharyngeal branch of glossopharyngeal nerve
Submarine branching unit
Smerbank Branch
Superficial branch
Superficial branch of lateral plantar nerve
Superficial branch of medial circumflex femoral artery
Superficial branch of radial nerve
Superficial branch of ulnar nerve
Superficial palmar branch of radial artery
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Sympodial branching
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Tenuibranchiurus
Tetbury branch line
Thames Branch
The Best of Hank Williams Jr. Volume One: Roots and Branches
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The House of Branching Love
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Thornbury branch line
Three-spot nudibranch
Thymic branches of internal thoracic artery
Tinker Creek (East Branch Tunkhannock Creek tributary)
Tintern Wireworks Branch
Tip of the red-giant branch
Tokanui Branch
Tonsillar branch
Tonsillar branches of glossopharyngeal nerve
Tonsillar branch of the facial artery
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Trentham Park branch line
Trout Brook (South Branch Tunkhannock Creek tributary)
Trout Run (East Branch Fishing Creek tributary)
Tuatapere Branch
Tubal branches of ovarian artery
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Turnchapel Branch
Tyndall Branch (Deep Creek tributary)
UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch
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Unibranch local ring
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Upper Big Branch Mine disaster
Ureteral branches of renal artery
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Vaginal branches of uterine artery
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Ventnor West Branch
Vermont Square Branch Library
Victoria Dock branch line
Victoria Police Mounted Branch
Village of the Branch Historic District
Village of the Branch, New York
Vladimir branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Vurpr branch line
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Warty pleurobranch
Waterloo Public Library-East Side Branch
WazirabadNarowal Branch Line
Wells Branch, Texas
West Branch
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West Branch Neshaminy Creek
West Branch Reservoir
West Branch Run
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West Branch Township, Michigan
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West End Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Westerham Valley branch line
West Hempstead Branch
West Long Branch, New Jersey
Weston Branch Library
Whitehall Branch
White-spotted nudibranch
Whitestone Branch
William A. B. Branch
William B. Branch
William Branch
William Branch Giles
Willow Branch
Wilmington Branch
Wilshire Branch Library
Windermere branch line
Winsford and Over branch line
Witham to Maldon branch line
With Roots Above and Branches Below
Wolf Branch (Big Lake Creek tributary)
Wolf Branch (Little Bridge Creek tributary)
Wolf Branch Nature Preserve
Wolf Run (North Branch Mehoopany Creek tributary)
Wombourne branch line
Woodbranch, Texas
World Series of Fighting 10: Branch vs. Taylor
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Wyndham Branch
Xiaobitan branch line
Xinbeitou branch line
Yolo Branch Library
Youngs Creek (Long Branch tributary)
YWCA, Phillis Wheatley Branch
Zygomatic branches
Zygomatic branches of the facial nerve



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