Quotes of: Certain-degree Keyword

The love object occupies the thoughts of the person diagnosed as 'in love' all the time despite the probability that very little is actually known about it. To it are ascribed all qualities considered by the obsessed as good, regardless of whether th...

The Female Eunuch

For every 100 women who earn a bachelors degree, 75 men do so. For every 100 American women who earn a Masters degree, 66 American men do so. For every 100 females, ages 20 to 24, who commit suicide, 624 males do so. For every 100 women, ages 18 to 2...

From Family Collapse to America's Decline: The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

I remember sitting in the Beth Shalom synagogue in Cambridge on the night of Kol Nidre. Peter Lipton, a friend and an atheist philosopher, was giving a sermon on the theme of “atonement:” “If we treat another person as essentially bad, we dehum...

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since violation of standards, rules, and goals are insufficient in its elicitation unless responsibility can be placed on the self. Stigma may differ from o...

Michael Lewis

Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout all his existence man has been striving to hear the music of the spheres, and has seemed to himself once and again to catch som...

Last and First Men

Music is a complete evocation – like a smell. It can bring an entire memory and feeling back to you in a rush. Much more complete than even a photograph. You allow yourself a certain visual distance with photos – not music. It envelopes you – t...

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

Degrees: Thought Capsules

It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing

Warrior Patient: A Memoir About Survival, Hope, Love & Laughter

Degree lets you to the chair of interview, but it cannot provide you job

Pawan Mehra

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

R. Buckminster Fuller

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

Renny Harlin

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

Seth Green

I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT.

Sanjay Kumar

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Swami Vivekananda

I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.

Ted Baillieu

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Laura Vandervoort

I think children have a degree of wisdom totally unknown by adults

Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez «Marino»

My master's degree was in English literature.

Sylvia Browne

I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism.

Michael York

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

Jock Sturges

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Charles de Montesquieu