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Letter "D" » degrees
«The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.»
«We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.»
«The hardest stones, by degrees, give way to the touch of air.»
«The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
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«We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.»
«These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.»
«The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other - until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology.»
Author: Ayn Rand
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«The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self.»
«Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it»
«We all boil at different degrees»