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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• 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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• 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.

  Junipero Serra

  Lying, Journey, Reality

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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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• I have actually five honorary degrees.

  Katherine Dunham

  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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• The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

  William Ralph Inge

  Wise, Wisdom, Common Sense

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• Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

  Tina Weymouth

  Art, Golf, Choices

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

  Todor Zhivkov

  Dictator, Radical, Turns

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• 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.

  Earle Brown

  Art, Cages, Given

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-century Music: A Continuing Symposium". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, ‎Joseph Darby, ‎Matthew Santa, 1996.

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• One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Biology

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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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• 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.'

  Lord Chesterfield

  Friendship, People, Opinion

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.55, Oxford Paperbacks

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

  Ruby Wax

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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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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• 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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• 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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