Quotes with degree

Quotes 81 till 100 of 111.

  • Bertrand Russell The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Billy Campbell The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bill Gates The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • George Eliot 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
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Adam Smith The mind is so rarely disturbed, but that the company of friend will restore it to some degree of tranquility and sedateness.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Paradox, Edward Fredkin's The more equally attractive two alternatives seem, the harder it can be to choose between them - no matter that, to the same degree, the choice can only matter less.
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Walter Lippmann 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
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Paul De Man The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Bayard Taylor There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Those minute critics who seem to think that when they detect the occasional errors of a great man, they in some degree reduce him to their own level.
    History of civilization II, 314
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Bayard Taylor Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • R. I. Fitzhenry Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.
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  • Alan Moore 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
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • André Gide To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks.
    Steal This Book (1971) Free Education
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Basil King Victory becomes, to some degree, a state of mind. Knowing ourselves superior to the anxieties, troubles, and worries which obsess us, we are superior to them.
    Basil King
    Canadian preacher and novelist (1859 - 1928)
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  • Alexander Pope Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bayard Rustin War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Brian Tracy We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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