"An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel ."
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"There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors."
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"Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself."
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"Every thing useful and beneficial to man, seems to be connected with obedience to the laws of his nature, the inclinations, the duties, and the happiness of individuals, resolve themselves into customs and habits, favorable, in the highest degree, to society. In no case is this more apparent, than in the customs of nations respecting marriage."
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"Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments."
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"In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved."
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"Lying, like license, has its degrees."
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"The theater audience is the ultimate teacher, instructing the actor on the degree to which he has executed both the author's and the director's intent."
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"To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life."
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"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."
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"To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as having reached morality - for that, much is lacking."
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"I do believe that you have to bring some degree of truth from yourself to the role [Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ]in and I'll admit it here, I have shaved a grown man before. I have done it. And it wasn't Tim [Burton]."
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"The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting."
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"The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff."
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"Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control."
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"A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers."
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"The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity."
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"I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen."
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"No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace."
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"Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind."
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