Degrees Quotes - Page 6

• There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

  Simone Weil

  Loyalty, Spring, Law

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.127, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

  George Soros

  Economy, Members, Interest

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• There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

  Nigella Lawson

  Grief, Madness, Kind

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

  William O. Douglas

  Anniversary, Together, Sacred

  Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

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• You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

  Dave Winer

  World, Pay, Way

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• I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Rights, Average

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.407, Courier Corporation

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• So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

  Charlie Hunnam

  Careers, Interesting, Balance

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• Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

  Stephen Harper

  Allies, Events, Canada

  "Maclean's Magazine", August, 25, 2003.

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• Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Work, Indispensable

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.

  Bela Lugosi

  Art, Years, Budapest

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• Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Causes, Action, Hackers

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

  Twyla Tharp

  Optimistic, Optimism, Experience

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• I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

  Bob Newhart

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

  Fats Domino

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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

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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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• In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

  Simon Newcomb

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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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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• The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

  Tony Hillerman

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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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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• 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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