Quotes by category:Degrees

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge it... by Plato

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

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When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

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I had a friend who had two degrees of being made up: when invited I would say 'Can I make up?' and he would say 'Oh yes - tinted?', or he would say, 'Oh yes - clotted?'

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It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees t... by R. Buckminster Fuller

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one. by Publilius Syrus

Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.

Publilius Syrus

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Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

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I went to McGill University, but I didn't graduate. They won't graduate me because I didn't have a degree in any one thing. I studied everything and they were like, "You studied too many things, so we can't give you a degree."

Rachelle Lefevre

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To the degree we try to create peace around us, we will find peace within ourselves. And to the degree we find peace within ourselves, we will actually have the power to create peace around us.

Radhanath Swami

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a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Ramana Maharshi

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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

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My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

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I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degre... by Rebecca Mead

I think it's a terrible mistake to only think in terms of a degree "buying" you something.

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All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters o... by Rebecca West

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

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One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.

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Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

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