"We have all in some degree become anarchistic."

-- Lionel Trilling

#Degrees Quotes

“Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch.”
“It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.”
“With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else”
“People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.”
“Spider-Man has always been a symbol of goodness and doing the right thing and looking after your fellow man.”
“A number of foreign policy experts distanced themselves from Donald Trump, not Michael Flynn.”
“Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.”

Source : "Dianna Agron on Life, Glee, and the Paparazzi". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.
“To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously.”

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