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Machines are beneficial to the degree that they eliminate the need for labor, harmful to the degree that they eliminate the need for skill.
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.
For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.
Nobody would have ever guessed-I wouldn't have guessed-the extraordinary degree to which you can reduce social violence through meditation.
JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
I happen to hold a bachelor of science degree in geology... And my greatest contribution to the field of science is that I never entered it.
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.
Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.
To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.
The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.
The great thing about media now is that you have 360 degrees worth of opinions and can find whatever you want and tune out whatever you want.
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.
You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.
I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.
The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'.
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.
I last played in Dubai in the summer of 2009 and it was still over 40 degrees in the evening. It was extremely exhausting and absolute madness.
What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?
If Lehman Brothers had been a bit more Lehman Sisters ... we would not have had the degree of tragedy that we had as a result of what happened.
Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
In the 1970s, I think that there was probably a higher degree of respect for science, of hope about the future, and the future-oriented vision.
The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
How can it be that we laugh about England's obsession with the royal family? At least the royal family has college degrees and military service.
Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river (in deeper or shallower degree). 'Entire sanctification' is the river in fullest flow.
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.
I was in the business of marketing, and I have two Bachelor's Degrees in Political Journalism, and I wrote for the school newspaper at the time.
All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.
I don't know if there is some psychological thing of wanting to know where your doctor got his degree from before he comes into the medical room.
Now that The Thorn and the Blossom has come out and I'm done with my doctoral degree (yes, I'm finally Dr. Goss), I'm turning to longer projects.
We should prepare our future workforce differently. It isn't just advanced STEM degrees. There are many jobs you can do without advanced degrees.
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
It is time that all Americans realized that the place of labor is side by side with the businessman and with the farmer, and not one-degree lower.
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.