Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

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

    I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious—except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    I’ve always credited the private detective with a high degree of omniscience. Or is that only true in rental fiction?
    John Paxton (1911–1985)