"All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood."
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"The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."
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"There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill."
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"When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree."
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"The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education."
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"One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us."
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"Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree."
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"Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society."
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"It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity."
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"The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence."
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"Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree."
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"Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation."
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"I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern."
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"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension."
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"The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word."
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"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others"
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"I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being."
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"Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable actions for their own sake, that these passions are more capable of mixture than any other kinds of affection; and it is almost impossible to have the latter without some degree of the former."
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"The interior of the earth is extremely hot – several million degrees."
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"As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!"
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