Degrees Quotes - Page 4

• What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

  Rowan Williams

  Marketing, Empires, Culture

  "The new head of the Anglican church ... in his own words" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

  Emma Bonino

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

  Laurie Anderson

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

  Ruth Ann Minner

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

  E. W. Howe

  Fake People, Women, Virtue

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

  George Henry Lewes

  Artist, Men, Imagination

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

  James Lovelock

  Average, World, Different

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• We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Country, Home

  "Obama's Oval Office Hypocrisy" by Steven Milloy, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2009.

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• It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Motivation, Enemy

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.77, e-artnow

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Character, Technique

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

  Hector Elizondo

  School, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Summer, Artist, Snow

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• You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

  Neil Simon

  Graduation, School, People

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• It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Two, Three, Six

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

  Seth Lloyd

  Important, Information, Advantage

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• I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

  Flora Lewis

  Civilization, Different, Way

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• So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

  Steven Chu

  Agriculture, World, Today

  "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

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• For whatever be the knowledge which
  we are able to obtain of God, either by
  perception or reflection, we must of
  necessity believe that He is by many
  degrees far better than what we
  perceive Him to be.

  Origen

  Believe, Reflection, Perception

  Origen (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

  Josiah Warren

  Crush, Money, Hype

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• There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

  Charles Buck

  Law, Perfection, Saint

  Charles Buck (1807). “A Theological Dictionary”, p.238

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• The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

  William Herschel

  Differences, Community, Age

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• Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.

  Richard Owen

  Variation, Kind, Judgment

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• In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Arms, Driving, Should

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