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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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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. ↗

— Ted Danson

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My background is degradation and sloth, mostly. ↗

— Larry David

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I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked. ↗

— Richard Dawson

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There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

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Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

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If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero. ↗

— Vin Diesel

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Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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