"You can do law with a law degree. You can't do anything else."
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"The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree."
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"It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves."
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"One might lay down as a postulate: All conceptions of God which are incompatible with a movement of pure charity are false. All other conceptions of him, in varying degree, are true."
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"Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation."
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"'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence."
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"To whatever degree we are alert, aware, to that degree we are living"
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"Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions."
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"I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around. But as it happens... this is, at least to a degree, about getting old and the rapid passage of our lives."
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"Eventually, I want to finish my degree."
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"Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another."
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"How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style."
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"I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me."
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"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."
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"Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid."
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"To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made."
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"It takes more than a college degree to make one a person of education. Any person who is educated is one who has learned to get whatever he wants in life without violating the rights of others."
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"I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production."
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"JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree."
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"All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die."
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