Degrees Quotes
2028 quotes by 1526 authors
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who…
— Booker T. Washington
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You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I…
— Chris Corrigan
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No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.
— Wes Fesler
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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior and intentions. It is the…
— J. William Fulbright
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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in…
— Hugh Miller
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Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with…
— Walter Hagen
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The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill…
— Aberjhani
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Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By…
— Lucretius
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
— James Boswell
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One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.…
— Charles Darwin
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Possess purity in an eminent degree, and jealously preserve this fragrant flower. I earnestly desire to see you shine by the brilliancy of this virtue;…
— Paul of the Cross
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has…
— Phillips Brooks
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Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties.…
— Hugh Prather
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Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that…
— Bill Bryson
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I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and…
— Laurens van der Post
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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