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“You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.”

World Giving Interest Politician Degrees Gains Independence Wide Acquaintance Effectiveness

Author:William Hague

“There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.”

Needs Degrees Gains Reputation Addresses Expenses Benevolence Incurring

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed about. ... That science which is less discriminating in the behaviour it chooses to investigate gains clarity and distinctiveness at the cost of confining itself to the trivial.”

Mind Important Actors Habit Cost Degrees Gains Clarity Behaviour Critique Habits Of Mind

Author:John Carroll

“The idea of suicide, understandable as it is, does not seem commendable to me. We live in order to gain the greatest possible amount of spiritual development and self-awareness. As long as life is possible, even if only in a minimal degree, you should hang onto it, in order to scoop it up for the purpose of conscious development. To interrupt life before its time is to bring to a standstill an experiment which we have not set up. We have found ourselves in the midst of it and must carry it through to the end.”

“Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.”

Way Mind Children Pain Suffering Degrees Gains Foundation Lays Resolution Shrinking Firmness

Book:Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Source: Some Thoughts Concerning Education

“A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.”

Degrees Gains Workers Satisfaction Mediums Repeats Mutual Arrangements Employers

Author:James Larkin

“Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.”

Ifs Mind May Reason Use Expression Arms Circumstances Degrees Gains Determination Uncertainty Incessantly

Book:On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war

Source: On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war

“When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.”

People Mind Long Feelings Spirit Wish Study Subjects Objects Masters Degrees Reflection Gains Seeking Yield Mastery

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.”

Ignorance Degrees Gains University Avenues

Book:For the Roses

Source: For the Roses

“To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.”