It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

God is each truly and exalted thing therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

The addiction to sports therefore in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

For example I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

Men are able to trust one another knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Particularly black Americans many of them from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.