#grad

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Looking can make you want. Wanting can get you thinking. If you want them to stop thinking, just give them what they want. ↗

— R.S. Vern

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I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people. ↗

— Mario Monti

#come #culture #gradually #hold #i

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. ↗

— Junior Seau

#all day #am #day #go #going

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#body #enough #fish #fishy #food

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually. ↗

— John Newton

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Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. ↗

— Tillie Olsen

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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it. ↗

— Aaron Paul

#acting class #actor #actual #church #class

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

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But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom. ↗

— Rick Perry

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