Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

“A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I began to realize that it was bigotry of the worst kind to say that it’s better to be dead than to be born retarded or blind or without a limb. It’s a value judgment you’re making about someone’s life, based on their degree of perfection.”
—Juli Loesch (b. c. 1953)

“If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)