#degree

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system. ↗

— Peter Thiel

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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

#country #degree #depend #family #fear

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #annoying #back #conversation #degree

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗

— Herbert Read

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In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. ↗

— Herbert Read

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The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health? ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

#break #college #college degree #degree #down

The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

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The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. ↗

— Emma Bonino

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