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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

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

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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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Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

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

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

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Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

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Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

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

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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

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Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

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Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

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

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There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.

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