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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. ↗

— Andre Gide

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In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

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It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements. ↗

— Utada Hikaru

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I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then... while I was single... Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation. ↗

— Betty Hill

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I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles. ↗

— David Hockney

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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I got my degree in rhetoric. ↗

— Alex Borstein

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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. ↗

— Earle Brown

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