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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Degree Laziness Low Manner Person Repose Unwarranted

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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Adjective Affected Degree High Independence Intellectual Mad

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

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Ability Commonly Consist Degree Found High Mainly Solemnity

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My father would have been spectacularly ill-suited to working for an institution of any kind, and I suspect that, to a lesser degree, that's true of me, too.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Any Been Degree Father Institution Kind Lesser Me Suspect Too True Working Would

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

~Anatole France

Topics: Acceptance Against Believers Certain Constructing Degree Devout High Illnesses Neurosis Neurotic Personal Risk Spares Task Them Universal

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When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

~Andie Macdowell

Topics: Apart Back College Could Degree Education Falling Four Girl Got Had Her Marriage Mother Music She Tell

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I got a degree in sociology, didn't read much fiction in college, and I was a pretty political, left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man, and I was very romantic and passionate about it.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: About Better Change College Degree Fiction Got Guy Kind Left-Wing Make Man Much Passionate Political Poor Poor Man Pretty Read Romantic Social Social Change Sociology Some Things Type Very Wanted Work

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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

~Andre Gide

Topics: Admit Degree Different Interpretations Leave Marks Past Same

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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Actually Awful Biology Darwin Degree Did Doing Gift Go Interested Kind Lady Might Myself Off Others Out Practice Really Science Scientist Some Someplace Stories Think Turned Undergraduate Very Wanted Who

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I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God and I try to share it with as many people as possible. Having a great voice is not a merit. I don't think it is a merit.

~Andrea Bocelli

Topics: Been Degree Extraordinary Gift Given God Great Having Know Many Merit People Possible Self-Confidence Share Think Try Voice

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