"I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion."
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"It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell."
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"The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome."
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"It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do."
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"I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school."
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"There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense."
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"I've been acting since I was a kid, so I just feel confident in the fact that I can do it to some degree. I've never thought I was amazing; I've just thought, 'I know this, I can do it."
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"A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting."
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"The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education."
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"Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten."
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"The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress."
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"A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions"
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"I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time."
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"Law officials put their lives on the line every single day for us, and I think we also owe them a degree of respect."
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"You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!"
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"I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will."
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"I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree."
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"Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee."
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"In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses."
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"The center of the earth is about a million degrees."
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