In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
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Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I… — Murray Walker Copy Share Image
I think the key to success is vision that adjusts on the way, but doesn’t at all falter. It’s about not compromising… — Millard Drexler Copy Share Image
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more. — Dan Fogelberg Copy Share Image
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I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a hypocrisy… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as being particulary a subversive writer, but I like to think that my work could afford someone… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
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We have to rethink, how do we get a complete 360-degree understanding of the patient? — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
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[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
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The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with… — John Green Copy Share Image
The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The divide between me and the modern world is growing further because I to a larger degree manage to rid myself of… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Women who earn a certificate or degree from a community college, especially in STEM-related field, will be ready to move into a… — Jill Biden Copy Share Image
If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
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every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating,… — John Selden Copy Share Image
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To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because,… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image