"What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness."
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"Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint."
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"Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain."
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"Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time! Saunter a while! Enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the breeze, let life carry you at your own pace! Don't be slaves of time, it's a helluva way to die, slowly, by degrees...down with the Ticktockman!"
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"Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness."
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"To be successful in life what you need is education."
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"I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story."
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"a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes"
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"To be a miracle worker you do not have to get a doctoral degree, become a minister, eat a particular food, or be able to meditate for long hours. All you need to do is to begin to see beauty in your life and those around you."
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"For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status."
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"He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself."
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"I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life."
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"There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees."
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"What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared... It's like 50% off... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it."
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"The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."
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"We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars."
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"Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic"
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"The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out."
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"Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness."
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"I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree: The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heavens go."
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