#degree

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. ↗

— Neil Simon

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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ↗

— John Dryden

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About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt. ↗

— Arne Duncan

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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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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 if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment. ↗

— Chris Evans

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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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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. ↗

— David Leavitt

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