#degree

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. ↗

— Paul de Man

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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. ↗

— Ralph Marston

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I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story. ↗

— Chris Martin

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Composing demands a degree of isolation. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

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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. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations. ↗

— Angela Merkel

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The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fought him to the degree that I drove me to be one of the most successful musician in the world. ↗

— George Michael

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Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too. ↗

— John Milius

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