Adam Clarke Quotes, Memorial Quotes, Degrees Quotes

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

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

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Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far—reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. … You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.

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

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

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

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

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My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.

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

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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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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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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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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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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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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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