Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.
Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.
Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.
It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days.
Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.
Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian
Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.