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The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. ↗

— George Eliot

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I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

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With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on. ↗

— Sonny Bono

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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it. ↗

— Michael Chabon

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No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree. ↗

— W. C. Fields

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The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. ↗

— Jung Chang

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I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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