Quotes with degrees

  • 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.

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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Elbert Hubbard God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • William Shakespeare I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Dryden Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Thomas Paine It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Norman Cousins 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
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Burgess Owens On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff game in Cleveland, in which the temperatures plunged to -35 degrees. I remember looking up in the stands to see a dedicated Cleveland Brown fan celebrating topless.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Voltaire Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Aldous Huxley Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob Newhart Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Francis Beaumont There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Francis Beaumont There is method in man's wickedness, it grows up by degrees,
    A King and No King 5, 4
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Bill Owens This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Anthony Burgess We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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