#degree

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. ↗

— David Leavitt

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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. ↗

— Paul de Man

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I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

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Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. ↗

— John McLaughlin

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Are hackers a threat? The degree of threat presented by any conduct, whether legal or illegal, depends on the actions and intent of the individual and the harm they cause. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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