Famous quotes containing the word degree:
“The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mindthe mind of a fighterin which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree mans first beginning.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.”
—Thomas Jefferson (17431826)
“There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably grounded; however, it is certainly most prudent not to communicate, prematurely, ones hopes or ones fears.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)