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• Science is a dynamic undertaking directed to lowering the degree of the empiricism involved in solving problems; or, if you prefer, science is a process of fabricating a web of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiments and observations and fruitful of further experiments and observations.

  James Bryant Conant

  Science, Problem, Process

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• Christian action in the world will not be sustained or carried on in an intelligent and effective manner unless it is supported by doctrinal convictions that have achieved some degree of clarity.

  John Macquarrie

  Christian, Intelligent, World

  "Methods in the Madness: Diversity in Twentieth-century Christian Social Ethics". Book by Anna M. Robbins, p. 266, 2004.

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• One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Believe, School, Thinking

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.34

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• God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

  Francois Fenelon

  Growing Up, Men, Weakness

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

  Jean Racine

  Virtue, Crime, Crime And Punishment

  1677 Phe'dre, act 4, sc.2.

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• Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  Jean Racine

  Rights, Law, May

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• Our world can be moved Godward only by leaders who have shared to a deep degree the heartbreak as He looks in compassion and love on the world. Until you sense the suffering tears in the heart of God, until you share to some extent our Saviors suffering passion in Gethsemane, until you come close enough to God to enable the Spirit to yearn within you with His infinite and unutterable yearnings, you are not prepared to minister about the cross.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Passion, Heart, Our World

  Wesley L. Duewel (1989). “Ablaze for God”, p.238, Zondervan

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• We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Book, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2955, Delphi Classics

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• Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisonedin mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Intellectual, Seems

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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• Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hearing, Relief, Way

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• Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the other hand, it is easiest taken on when we are in a state of most absolute self-satisfaction.

  Lew Wallace

  Sympathy, Taken, Self

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ”, p.230, Bible Study Steps

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• Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Heaven, Democracy, Patents

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• It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.

  Anna C Salter

  Parent, Way, Like You

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• A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.

  H. Ned Seelye

  Groups, Culture, Behaviour

  H. Ned Seelye (1995). “Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• It's entirely in your power to regulate the degree to which you peel back the layers of your personality when you disclose yourself to someone. You can keep that person on the surface, or you can allow her to penetrate, by degrees or directly, to the core.

  Harriet B. Braiker

  Personality, Layers, Losing Yourself

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• The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Judging, Perfection, Progress

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• The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Mean, Artist, Imagination

  Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor

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• It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

  Jerry Bridges

  Circumstances, Difficulty, Discontent

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.38, Tyndale House

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• Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Failing, Proportion

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.15, Penguin

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• Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on.

  Serge Nubret

  Powerful, Two, Mind

  "An Interview With Six-Time World Champion Bodybuilder Serge Nubret!". Interview with Matt Weik, www.bodybuilding.com. July 16, 2014.

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• We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

  Mother Teresa

  Love You, Deeds, Action

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• I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.

  Werner Herzog

  Might, Cows, Fields

  "Burden of Dreams". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
  having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Grace, Too Much

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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