#branch

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#become #branches #case #certain #cultures

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branches #doing #even #finances #grassroots

I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time. I want them to go back and get out the vote because I want us to have a big impact on the Congressional elections this year. ↗

— Julian Bond

#back #because #big #big impact #branch

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place. ↗

— Julian Bond

#branch #church #fairly #guy #middle-class

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

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#adaptation #all things #branches #climate #dress

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe? ↗

— Kate Chopin

#branches #breathe #chord #detect #ear

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#balance #balances #branches #check #checking

And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#am #branches #congress #corruption #court

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor. ↗

— John Engler

#any #branch #constitutional #executive #executive branch