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• The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Love, Soulmate, Giving

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  Mike Rowe

  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Thinking, Sensual

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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  Isaac Asimov

  Business, Swings, Dynamics

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• Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

  Thomas Fuller

  Smile, Class, Diversity

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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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• I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

  Ted Shackelford

  College, Men, Denver

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• Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

  George Eliot

  Relationship, Happiness, Freedom

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.393, 谷月社

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• The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Spiritual, Peace

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• To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

  Alan Moore

  Christian, Believe, Disease

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• 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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• For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

  Joshua Jackson

  College, Swim, Brain

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

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• Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Literature, Shapes, Colour

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Lane, Allen

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• Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

  Michael Korda

  Success, Jobs, Hate

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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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• To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

  Peter McWilliams

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Knowing, Different, Administration

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.268, Library of Alexandria

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• I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

  Michael York

  Writing, Done, Journalism

  "Interview: Michael York actor". www.askmen.com.

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• Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Weed, Marijuana, Literature

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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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• It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

  Rod Serling

  Eye, May, Twilight Zone

  "Character: Narrator". "The Twilight Zone", TV Series (1959–1964). "The Long Morrow", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  People, Genius, Sense Of Humor

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• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Love, Marriage, Flower

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (1971). “Chagall at the Met”, Leon Amiel Publisher

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• every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Success, Positive Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1004, Penguin

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