475 Quotes About Degrees

  • Author Charles Babbage
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    No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

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  • Author Clive Bell
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    There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

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  • Author Derek Bailey
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    Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

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  • Author Douglas Booth
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    I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

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  • Author Fernand Braudel
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    The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was the rule, capitalism moved in firmly and adapted itself to all administrative quirks and difficulties

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  • Author Harold Brodkey
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    I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

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