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• The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.

  James Madison

  Passion, Character, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.

  Hermann Goring

  Suicide, War, Men

  Remark on May 24, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.

  Howard Zinn

  Evil, Violence, May

  ZNet forum reply, May 26, 1999.

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• I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.

  Herbert Hoover

  Suffering, Unemployment, Wages

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Strength, Desire

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Body, Flesh

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Islands, Talking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.522, Library of America

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• The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Silence, Return, Eloquence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

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• When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Plato, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• When one wakes up in the morning, one's whole life is neatly laid out, consistent with the past, to the degree that we even (apparently) remember the same language spoken the day before, suggesting previous experience had simply entered a dormant state.

  James R. Swartz

  Dream, Morning, Past

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Knowing, Disadvantages, Prudence

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas Moore (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.78, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Fashion, Jobs

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• Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believesin its inconceivable purity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Couple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1759, Delphi Classics

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• Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Country, Names, Numbers

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

  Plato

  Heart, Doe, Smallest

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• To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

  Vanna Bonta

  Beautiful, Spaceships, Efficient

  "The Cosmos as a Poem". Essay by Vanna Bonta, 2010.

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• The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, War, Progressive

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• I worry about America. For the first time in my lifetime, I'm worried about us, i'm worried about how our values to some degree have been eroded, of personal responsibility and compassion and teamwork. I worry about it, I worry about the fact that we're so divided.

  John Kasich

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Compassion

  "Gov. Kasich: fighting ISIS “at some point it will require boots on the ground”". "State of the Union" with Gloria Borger, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. February 22, 2015.

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• Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

  Andrew Schneider

  Life, Military, Sight

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• One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.

  Ari Fleischer

  Love, Sports, Golf

  "With Rhetoric On Immigrants, Trump Risks Teeing Off Golf Industry" by Steve Holland, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2015.

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• The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
  matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Character, Artist, Symphony

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Jan 01, 2017

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• The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Magic, Together, World

  "The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois". Book edited by Aberjhani, 2003.

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• The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on breast-feeding, devotes fewer than two pages to the working mother.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Mother, Children, Reality

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• Weather in Afghanistan, 2000 degrees and cloudy. What the f-ck am I doing? I'm stuck on the weather channel. AHHH!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Weather, Stuck, Afghanistan

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