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I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.
The judicial branch has, in its finest hours, stood firmly on the side of individuals against those who would trample their rights.
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.
The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.
The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.
For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
Although technology has been playing a key role in filmmaking, I feel there are plenty of opportunities in other branches of filmdom.
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.
I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves
The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.
Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.
Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit".
My last name is originally Irish. I'm not exactly sure whereabouts it's from, but I've got family branches that were traced back there.
Staffing branches with tellers can be considered a premium service in a world where fewer customers visit bank branches for transactions.
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.
Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.
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.
We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!
This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous.
The faults and shortcomings we see in the members of our own ward or branch are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves.
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.
Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible.
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.
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.
[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.
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.
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.
The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.
I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.
We are a Republic with different branches of government, and so the Senate and the House are going to be full partners in working with the White House.
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.
We go to the banya, the Russian spa. And you go into the sauna, which is really hot, much hotter than a normal sauna, and then they beat you with branches.
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.
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.
I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.
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.
Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
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.
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.
We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.