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"Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing."
"It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."
"Goodness means the highest degree of popularity."
"There are different kinds and degrees of love, and they change over time, ripening and deepening and changing us in the process."
"There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell."
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
"Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others"
"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial."
"All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement."
"To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present."
"To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time."
"There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live."
"Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern."
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
"I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit."
"There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last"
"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology."
"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
"I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost."
"Artistry is to a large degree simplicity."
