Alain de Botton Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Degrees Quotes

The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

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Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

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... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

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Unpleasant, even dangerous, qualities can be found in every nation and every individual: it is cruel to demand that the Jew be an exception. In him, these qualities may even be dangerous and revolting to an unusual degree; and perhaps the young stock-exchange Jew is altogether the most disgusting invention of mankind.

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My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

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Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

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The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes.

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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I think she [Gina Torres] loved being on the show [Suits], and we'd loved having her. She wanted to do it to some degree sooner rather than later, so we tried to figure out a way to make it work for both of us so that she could enjoy her life a little bit more.

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The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

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To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff.

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