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“One forgives to the degree that one loves.”

Love You Degrees Forgiveness Forgiving Life Changing Forgiven One Love Valentine's Day What Is Forgiveness Love And Forgiveness Power Of Forgiveness How To Forgive Learn To Forgive Forgiveness Love Forgiving Love

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.”

Facts Feelings Wisdom Emotion Wise Emotional Degrees Vary Hotter Mixed Emotions Useless Knowledge

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.”

Years Mother Morning Mom Dad Skills Degrees Died My Dad Miles Bus New Life Small Business Livelihood Madison New Skills Weekdays Dad Died My Dad Died

Author:Paul Ryan

“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”

Ends Reality Imagination Poet Degrees Dignity Importance Personal Dignity

Book:The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

“I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.”

Writing Able Order Travel Degrees Destination Funny Travel Select Usefulness

Author:Jose Saramago

“Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.”

States Government Certain Degrees Police Determine Video Facility Surveillance Railroads State Government

Author:Otto Schily

“I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.”

People Thinking Knows Wanted Know How Willing Industry Degrees Favors Ceo

Author:Eric Schmidt

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”

Shows Pain Suffering Growth Degrees Highest Capacity Intelligent Supreme Pessimism World Suffering

Book:The Wisdom of Life

Source: The Wisdom of Life

“Any degree of unemployment worries me.”

Worry Degrees Unemployment

Author:Gerhard Schroder

“It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.”

Inspirational Today Funny Economy Impossible College Degrees Graduation Global Economy College Degree

Author:Bobby Scott

“It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.”

May Said Eye Degrees Realism Assurance Twilight Zone

Author:Rod Serling

“Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.”

Persons Funny Degrees Lows Laziness Repose Sloth Indolence

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”

Poor Degrees Patience Wounds Heal Having Patience Life Patience Short Patience Being Patience Keep Patience

Author:William Shakespeare

“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.”

Degrees Intellectual Madness Independence Mad Intelligence Sarcastic Affected Madness And Sanity Insanity And Sanity Madness And Insanity Curmudgeon

Book:The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)

“Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.”

Found Ability Degrees Solemnity Natural Ability

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.”

People Way Acting Millions Economy Theory Degrees Complexes Chaos Interaction Introducing Literal American Economy Chaos Theory

Author:Nate Silver

“Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.”

Important Happens Jobs Individual Practice Plans Degrees Be Good Preparation Pilots Scenarios Salesman Be Confident

Author:Simon Sinek

“There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.”

Ifs Knows Way Feels Sometimes Degrees Sitting Contrast June April October January Starks February Sweden

Author:Alexander Skarsgard

“I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.”

Way Ideas Easy Greater Degrees Projects Horse Train Silent Species Symbolic Reserved

Book:A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

Littles States Courses Easy Peace Natural Justice Taxes Degrees Highest Investing Libertarian Administration Lowest Barbarism Tolerable Opulence Administration Of Justice

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.”

Body Used Morning Degrees Beats Weather Get Up Texas August

Author:Emmitt Smith

“I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.”

Kind Real Moments Feelings Degrees Real Life Ripped

Author:Kevin Smith

“People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.”

People Knows Ideas Bits Enjoy Creative Becoming Degrees University Accountants Creative Writers

Author:Wilbur Smith

“It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'”

Knows Kids Dad Degrees My Dad Snow Christmas Backyards

Author:Tori Spelling

“A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave. He may live; but he can live only as the servant of others; compelled to perform such labor, and to perform it at such prices, as they may see fit to dictate.”

Men May Conditions Fit Degrees Labor Slave Servant Forbidden Compelled Banking Prohibition

Author:Lysander Spooner

“To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.”

Littles Enough Seems Kids Turns Girl Given Keys Degrees Caught Stores Ran Candy Chasing Little Kid Candy Stores Chasing A Girl

Author:Paul Stanley

“The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.”

Whole Lasts Church Teaching Degrees Regard Tone Aggravation Degrading Contemptuous

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.”

Love Causes Love You Positive Birth Degrees Sufficient Valentine's Day Famous Love Time Love Valentine Phrases True Love Is Forever

Book:On Love

Source: On Love

“A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.”

People Knows Feels Care Causes Greater Industry Degrees Don't Care Worthy Credit Credibility Cds Unnoticed

Author:Angie Stone

“Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!”

Mean College Degrees Smart College Degree

Author:Emma Stone

“On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.”

Thinking Way Certain Sides Term Answers Levels Degrees Defined Cynicism

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.”

People Children Real Desire Artist Suffering Loses Forever Terrible Degrees Abuse Sight Victim Sexual Desire

Author:Jock Sturges

“I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.”

Country Religion Literature Nations Church Christianity Saws Heard Degrees Common Sense Beloved Persecution Clergy

Author:Jonathan Swift

“My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.”

Knows World Whole Social Dad Degrees Six Performances Constant My Dad Whole World Friendly Butterfly Cheerleader Cathy Social Butterfly

Author:Taylor Swift

“Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.”

Certain Behinds Degrees Optimism Experience Optimistic Cynicism Energizing

Author:Twyla Tharp

“My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.”

Firsts War Wanted Mother Born Teaching College Degrees Married Educated County Pianist Indiana College Degree

Author:Twyla Tharp

“It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.”

People Pain Happiness Joy Levels Brain Terrible Activity Degrees Asking Observation Sublime Electrical Measuring

Author:Polly Toynbee

“You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.”

Feels Helping Alive Degrees Helping Others

Author:John Travolta

“Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restrictions as you have playing a good guy. Good guys restrain themselves; they kind of have their moral fiber cut out for them in varying degrees.”

Kind Guy Moral Cutting Degrees Bad Guys Restriction Good Guy Fiber Envelopes Moral Fiber

Author:John Travolta

“I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.”

People Acceptance Degrees And Love Surface Surround Unconditional Unconditional Acceptance

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”

Men Sports Moral Development Degrees Mark Addiction Peculiar Arrested

Book:BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…

Source: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Premium Collection: 25+ Titles in One Volume: The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning in America, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, On the Nature of Capital…: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Beginning of Ownership, The Preconceptions of Economic Science, The Industrial System and the Captains of Industry, The Socialist Economics of Karl Marx…

“I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.”

Needs Mother Degrees University Finished Strict Recipes Florence

Author:Donatella Versace

“Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?”

Facts Eye Fiction Degrees Wings Assuming Chrysalis

Book:Cinq Mars

Source: Cinq Mars

“All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.”

World Kind Inspiration Differences Secret Awareness This World Degrees Oneness Secret Love

Book:Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

Source: Pathways to Joy: The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”

Hands Time Goal Degrees Perfection Excellence Perfectionist Perfection And Imperfection Self Perfection

Author:Voltaire

“Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.”

Should Humans Light Would Be Three Hours Effort Events Degrees Disaster Educated Damage Rescue Infrastructure Peril Supplies Assessment Casualties Personnel Generator

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.”

Knows World Wells Artist Answers Cases Degrees Decided Pops Halls Conform Being An Artist Practise Carnegie Carnegie Hall

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years.”

Years Has Beens Reality Lasts Degrees Theatre Contemporary Cinema Nevertheless Poland

Author:Andrzej Wajda

“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.”

Way Failing Degrees Rounds Wrong Way Circuits Stationary

Author:Murray Walker

“I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.”

Modern Degrees Brown Modern History

Author:Emma Watson