Famous quotes containing the word degree:
“A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“Ive always credited the private detective with a high degree of omniscience. Or is that only true in rental fiction?”
—John Paxton (19111985)
“Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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