"For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university."
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"To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us."
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"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees."
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"A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price."
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"The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return."
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"The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly."
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"In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new."
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"Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness."
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"All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness."
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"Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world."
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"Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection."
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"One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are."
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"All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree."
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"I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?"
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"If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves."
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"Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree."
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"The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it."
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"'Forrest Gump' was great, it was fabulous. It lasted much longer than anybody thought, and brought me a degree of attention that no human being on the face of the planet deserves."
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"Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to."
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