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“I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.”

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Author:Bela Lugosi

“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

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

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Author:Ramana Maharshi

“How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.”

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Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.”

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Author:John Malkovich

“Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.”

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Author:David Mamet

“I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.”

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Author:Cameron Mathison

“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”

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Author:Al McGuire

“I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.”

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Author:John McLaughlin

“To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.”

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Book:Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

Source: Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts

“If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.”

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Author:Angela Merkel

“I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick

“All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.”

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Author:Wilson Mizner

“Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.”

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Author:Moby

“On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.”

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Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.”

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Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“When you're younger, you see the people who are in power and think they must have that position because of some degree of skill. And as you get older, you realize it's not true, that most people in those positions are absolutely inept. And this naturally makes you feel better about yourself.”

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Author:Steven Morrissey

“I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”

Source: Chagall at the Met

“The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.”

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Author:Elon Musk

“What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.”

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Author:Elon Musk

“I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.”

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Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.”

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Author:Bob Newhart

“There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.”

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Book:The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes

Source: The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes

“People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.”

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Author:Mehmet Oz

“It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.”

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Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.”

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Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.”

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Author:James Cash Penney

“Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.”

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Author:Paula Poundstone

“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.”

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Author:Munshi Premchand

“If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.”

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Author:J. B. Priestley

“Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.”

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Author:Dave Ramsey

“A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.”

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Author:Kathy Reichs

“To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.”

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Author:Rick Riordan

“I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.”

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Author:Marilynne Robinson