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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

~David Mamet

Topics: Between Branches Coercion Desires Evil Founders Government Greed Individual Literally Must Necessary Necessary Evil Only Opposition Parties Peace Political Political Parties Power Quite Recognized Submission Temper Various Ways

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When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

~David Mamet

Topics: Better Branches Citizenry Failed Government Mass Media Represent Then Three

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Roots can live without branches, although truncated; branches cannot live without roots.

~David Novak

Topics: Although Branches Cannot Live Roots Without

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My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

~Dennis Rodman

Topics: Branches Feet Like Old Tree

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The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

~Diane S. Sykes

Topics: Avoid Best Branches Constitution Court Duty Friction Get Minimize Political Primary Right Role Short Try

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

~Donald Johanson

Topics: Branches Certain Certain Degree Darwin Degree Diversification Drew Family Had He Knew Mammals Many Tree Undergo

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The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Been Branch Branches Conquest Despondency Laurel Love Mourning Olive Palm Peace Pleasure Poetry To Love Victory Willow

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There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician.

~Douglas Alexander

Topics: Address After American Below Branches Britain British Conduct Doubt Emerged Fall Far Government No Doubt Place Politician Practices Should Situation Standard System Taken Unlike Were Years

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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

~Ed Speleers

Topics: Along Boy Branches Coast Country Country Boy England Grew House Living Mixture Out Really Sometimes Strip Town Up

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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

Topics: Applied Better Branches Difficult Had Mathematicians Mathematics Most Poorer Programming Pure Remain

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