George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Tolerance Quotes, Degrees Quotes

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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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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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

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

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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

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Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

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If some institution wants to sell you a billion dollars worth of mortgages, they might have to sell 100 million in the market, and then you'll buy the other 900 million on the same terms. Now, the very fact that this has been authorized or will be authorized, I hope, will firm up the market to some degree. And that's fine. But you don't want to have artificial prices being paid.

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I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

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Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

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Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

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

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Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

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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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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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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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For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again.

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