"Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent."
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"I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money."
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"Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree."
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"Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage."
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"We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved."
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"In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity"
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"One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be."
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"With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes."
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"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
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"To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt."
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"We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true"."
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"With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is."
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"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
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"I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business."
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"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward."
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"Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil."
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"What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies."
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"media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists."
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"Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so."
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"A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it."
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