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"By imitating the manners and the mode of life of the West, the Muslims are being gradually forced to adopt the Western moral outlook: for the imitation of outward appearance leads, by degrees, to a corresponding assimilation of the world-view responsible for that appearance."
"It must be evident how multifarious and how mutually complicated are the considerations which the working of such an engine involve. There are frequently several distinct sets of effects going on simultaneously; all in a manner independent of each other, and yet to a greater or less degree exercising a mutual influence."
"You are positive, creative and happy to the degree to which you eliminate negative emotions from your life."
"Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees."
"You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything"
"The University of Google is where I got my degree from."
"Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment."
"The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable."
"To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life."
"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."
"The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . ."
"Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on."
"And Venus must be hot if the history of the solar system is not the history of no change for billions of years. And Venus was found hot, not room temperature as was thought until 1959. In 1961 it was detected with radio means that it is like something like 600 Farenheit and Mariner 2 was sent out to find out true or not true? It was found that even more it is full 800 [degrees Farenheit]."
"We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree."
"... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty."
"The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. ... There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the man who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously."
"Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license."
"Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student."
"You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively."
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."
