I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
I have actually five honorary degrees.
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 graduate degree.
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.
We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.
People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'
Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.
Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.
In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.
To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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