"Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things."
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"I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees."
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"If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree."
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"There are no degrees of honesty."
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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."
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"Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness."
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"A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it."
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"The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens."
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"U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced."
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"We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way."
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"The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life - that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience."
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"For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again."
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"Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness."
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"Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power."
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"Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help."
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"It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him."
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"I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life."
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"I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room."
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"Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness."
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"Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling."
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