"There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't."

-- Sam Rayburn

#Degrees Quotes

“Women are now more aggressive than men! And I don't put them down for it. I think it's great. My attitude with sex with any woman I've ever been with is, I want you to be exactly who you want to be behind closed doors. Don't ever hold back with me.”
“Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”
“I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.”
“Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others...”

Source : Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.107, Penguin UK
“In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.”
“Only let it be trust in God, not in man, not in circumstances, not in any of your own exertions, but real trust in God, and you will be helped in your various necessities... Not in circumstances, not in natural prospects, not in former donors, but solely in God. This is just that which brings the blessing. If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises. On the other hand, if our trust in the Lord is real, help will surely come.”
“The Army was my bread and butter.”
“Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.”

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