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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain Degree Quotes
On things that are true, but only up to a point.
These certain degree quotes deal in nuance, admitting that achievement, optimism, and even arrogance are only ever partial matters of Degree rather than absolutes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
- Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike China's growth story, which has been built on the strategy of creating excess supply, the Indian growth story has been built on the strategy of responding to incentives generated by excess demand. Which is why a certain degree of inflation is built into the Indian growth process.
- Clearest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.
- American Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
- Communism
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- Nov 07, 2020