Degree Quotes
1888 Degree quotes by 1428 unique authors
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Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.
— Felix Dennis
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If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school…
— Lorrie Fair
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And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a…
— Donald A. Norman
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Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within…
— Bernard DeVoto
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That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless…
— Andre Breton
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I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach…
— Galileo Galilei
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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
— Simone Weil
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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections…
— Charles Darwin
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Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual…
— Charles Darwin
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I want to help clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism. And I have a communications degree.
— Sarah Palin
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Oil and coal? Of course, it's a fungible commodity and they don't flag, you know, the molecules, where it's going and where it's not [...].…
— Sarah Palin
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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because…
— Andre Bazin
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While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged…
— Howard W. Hunter
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The first degree of humility is prompt obedience.
— Benedict of Nursia
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I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of…
— Gillian Flynn
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It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a…
— Lewis Black
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in…
— Doris Lessing
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The good society is marked by a high degree of order, justice, and freedom. Among these, order has primacy: for justice cannot be enforced until…
— Russell Kirk
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Unfortunately, young Russian artists are in a difficult position today. Painting, like all other arts, rests on a continuity of experience. More than anything, young…
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now…
— Henri Bergson
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There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.
— Alan Dershowitz
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Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger…
— Russell Banks
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Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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