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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ↗

— Dean Inge

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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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

— Alfred de Vigny

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All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. ↗

— Earle Brown

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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it. ↗

— Archie Shepp

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There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ↗

— Charles Buck

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