#degree

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. ↗

— Francis Picabia

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

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If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree. ↗

— Dan Rather

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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

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