Degrees Quotes - Page 7

• A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

  Stendhal

  Love, Positive, Valentines Day

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Children, Movement, Vigor

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• Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong.

  William Gurnall

  Strong, Children, Grace

  "The Christian in Complete Armour".

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• Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

  Heinrich Mann

  Mean, Popularity, Goodness

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• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Determination, Critics, Fascinating

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• Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

  Rene Daumal

  Pain, Tears, Exactness

  Rene Daumal (2003). “A Night of Serious Drinking”, p.21, The Overlook Press

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• That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

  William Robertson Smith

  Sacrifice, Men, Ideas

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• But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

  John Perry Barlow

  Political, Engagement, Trouble

  "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August/September 2004.

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• Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

  Francis Picabia

  Men, Misery, Misers

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• I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

  David Alan Grier

  Done, Sitcom

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• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Umpires, Track

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

  Matthew McGrory

  Passion, Law, Backgrounds

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• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  Ida B. Wells

  Government, Order, Law

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

  Walter Lang

  Sex, Sin, This Life

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• You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

  Tom Brokaw

  Motivational, Graduation, Education

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• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  Dale Archer

  Real, Past, College

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• Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

  Shakuntala Devi

  School, Truth About Life, Absorbing

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• You have to treat yourself like a mushroom to some degree, in order to keep on discovering things.

  Christian Bale

  Order, Mushrooms, Treats

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

  Norman Cousins

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Norman Cousins (1967). “Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey”

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• We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  Jason Kidd

  Teamwork, Sports, Witty

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• So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Islamic, Decision, Honor

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• Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

  Eric Alterman

  Spring, Uganda, Egypt

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• Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Solemnity, Found, Ability

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.7, University of Georgia Press

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• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

  Bob Dylan

  Courage, Freedom, Hero

  Interview published with the "Biograph" album set, 1985.

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• I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, People, Cynical

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