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"I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field."
"I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader."
"Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree."
"Colour itself is a degree of darkness."
"The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life."
"I was told I was talented when I applied to Falmouth School of Art and that I should consider skipping the course and proceeding directly to degree level."
"When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property."
"The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it."
"Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it."
"You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy."
"I'd like for people to be able to go to the universities and get a degree in fine arts-gastronomy."
"Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms."
"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
"When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone."
"Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees."
"Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness."
"I try to get a degree of realism in my music."
"There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven."
"All poetry is political, to some degree."
"For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability."
