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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. ↗

— Rene Daumal

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The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

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I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

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There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things. ↗

— Susan George

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Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins. ↗

— Walter Lang

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No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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