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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• The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Teaching, Aggravation, Church

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• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  Simone Weil

  Equality, Needs, Attention

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.224, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

  Aretha Franklin

  Music, Mean, Singers

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

  Francis Picabia

  Men, Misery, Misers

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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 degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  The House of the Dead (1862) (translation by Constance Garnett) See Pearl S. Buck 2; Ramsey Clark 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

  Blaise Pascal

  Atheist, Mind, Atheism

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mistake, Errors, Study

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.157, Harvard University Press

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