"One of my degrees was a science degree in biology."
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"My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus."
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"In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love."
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"By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration."
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"Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental."
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"Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."
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"If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time."
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"When people are told to "eat many small meals," what they may actually hear is "eat all the time," making them likely to respond with some degree of compulsive overeating. It's no coincidence, I think, that obesity rates began rising rapidly in the 1980s more or less in tandem with this widespread endorsement of more frequent meals."
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"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
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"In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness."
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"I used to be stupid but I've turned that situation around 360 degrees."
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"The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree."
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"The greater your power degree, the extra environment friendly your physique. The extra environment friendly your physique, the higher you are feeling and the extra you'll use your expertise to supply excellent outcomes."
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"Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious."
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"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."
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"With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on."
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"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."
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"How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people."
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"I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not."
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"Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans."
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