Degree Quotes
1888 quotes by 1464 authors
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right…
— Aristotle
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
— Isaac Asimov
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has…
— Jane Austen
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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it…
— Charles Babbage
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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and…
— Michele Bachmann
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
— Honore de Balzac
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
— Ambrose Bierce
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms…
— Alain de Botton
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.
— Clay Aiken
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
— Jeff Bridges
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You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you…
— Tom Brokaw
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Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.
— Joyce Brothers
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I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat…
— Alton Brown
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All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer…
— Steven Brust
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better…
— Warren Buffett
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like…
— William S. Burroughs
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