Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

“Take but degree away, untune that string,
And hark what discord follows!
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Force should be right, or, rather, right and wrong—
Between whose endless jar justice resides—
Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then everything includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, an universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And last eat up himself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

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