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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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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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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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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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

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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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I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

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I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

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

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

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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

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My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

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

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We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

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

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Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

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

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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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