Degrees Quotes - Page 2

• I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Women, Community, Progress

  "The Ultimate Book of Quotations". Book by Joseph Demakis, 2012.

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• Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Play, Devil, Toys

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• Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Self, Goal

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• 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.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Civilization, Lust, Arbitrary

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.5

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• 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.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  School, Math, Technology

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• If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

  J. B. Priestley

  Despair, Needs, Disappear

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• Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

  Lance Loud

  Race, Class, Geography

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• 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.

  Irvine Welsh

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• 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.

  Donald A. Norman

  Jobs, Real, Work

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• To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Country, Class, Nomenclature

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• 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.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Ocean, Impact, Numbers

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• The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Buddhist, Heart

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.118, Shambhala Publications

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• On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Success, Effort, Needs

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• We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

  Todor Zhivkov

  Dictator, Radical, Turns

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• Heaven is within us, and we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.

  Ernest Holmes

  Heaven, Conscious

  Ernest Holmes (2009). “What We Believe: The Essence of Science of Mind”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• 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.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Study, Linguistics, Marvelous

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• In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

  Bela Lugosi

  Philosophy, Law, Careers

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• There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill.

  Fred Thompson

  Law, Skills, Competence

  "Choosing a New Supreme Court Justice". "Special Report With Brit Hume", www.foxnews.com. July 06, 2005.

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• College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

  Ruby Wax

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• 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.

  Camryn Manheim

  College, Parent, Fabulous

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• 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.

  David Eddings

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

  Loni Anderson

  Teacher, Minnesota, Minutes

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• To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

  Noam Chomsky

  Peace, War, Office

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• To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.

  Munshi Premchand

  Success, Education, Learning

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• Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Hygiene, Literature

  How to Read pt. 2 (1931)

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