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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 consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

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

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

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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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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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

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

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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

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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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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

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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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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.

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One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be.

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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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