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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?' ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. ↗

— Gilbert White

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I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. ↗

— David Alan Grier

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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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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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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. ↗

— Flora Lewis

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This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

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