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“Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.”

Practice Grace Degrees Hypocrisy Boston Refinement

Book:The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens ...

Source: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens ...

“No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.”

Knows Art I Can Practice Degrees Draws

Author:Emma Anderson

“What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.”

Years Seems Ability Practice Equal Degrees Pursuit Pursue Routine

Book:Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

Source: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.”

Hard Hands Eye Certain Fall Forget Behinds Practice Successful Failing Masters Degrees Deny Drawing Painter His Eyes Facility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice of Zen. Zen has become, to a certain degree, institutionalized.”

Different Whole School Certain Order Practice Teaching Degrees Hierarchy Introduction

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called "promiscuity." Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.”

Made Practice Revolution Birth Degrees Married Doctors Majority Court Supreme Supreme Court Pills Birth Control Promiscuity Unconstitutional Contraceptives Sexual Revolution Birth Control Pills

Author:Beth Bailey

“The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick characters, or of filling tragedy with poetical images, must be the gift of nature, which no instruction nor labour can supply; but the art of dramatick disposition, the contexture of the scenes, the involution of the plot, the expedients of suspension, and the strategems of surprise, are to be learned by practice.”

Writing Art Character Practice Player Scene Degrees Tragedy Surprise Labour Plot Instruction Disposition Filling Suspension

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.”

Firsts Persons Hands Belief Practice Greater Degrees Direct Regard Historical Definitions Intuition Accepted Psychological Mysticism Mystic Personal Knowledge

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.”

Knows Wells Children Enough Parent Practice Dog Fine Degrees Favors Excellent Scent Hunts Parent Child Barometer

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.”

States Use Growth Practice Degrees Decided Abuse Presses Fruit Instance Branches Inseparable Vigor Pruning

Author:James Madison

“...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.”

Men Humans Ability Practice Mystery Human Nature Duty Blessing Degrees Praise Every Man Honour Acquisition Helpers Valour Mystery Of Love

Author:Socrates