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On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have… — John Ruskin
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. — Lord Chesterfield
We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free… — William Faulkner
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond… — Samuel Johnson
The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom… — Russell Kirk
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe… — Loren Eiseley
To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you… — Nido R Qubein
The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity. — Ayn Rand
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step… — Alexander Graham Bell
Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond… — Isaac Newton
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views… — Charles Lyell
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways… — Vannevar Bush
Good applied science in medicine, as in physics, requires a high degree of certainty about the basic facts at hand, and especially about their meaning,… — Lewis Thomas
We are ... led to a somewhat vague distinction between what we may call "hard" data and "soft" data. This distinction is a matter of… — Bertrand Russell
The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of… — Isaac Newton
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy. — G. H. Hardy
Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out… — Thomas Huxley

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