#branch

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— Frances Cornford

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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

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Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. ↗

— Matthew Fox

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It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state. ↗

— William Law

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Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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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

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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 Newman

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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

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