Higher Degrees

Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or degrees:

    The lesson learned here is a costly one: If you stand up for your principles, follow the law, and win massively, you lose totally.
    Linda J. Carpenter, U.S. educator. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A38 (July 15, 1992)

    So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,—both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT—as his RESISTANCE.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)