Nsu Conferred Degrees

Famous quotes containing the words conferred and/or degrees:

    “As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)