Quotes with extent

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  • Anthony Holden I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Alexander the Great I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Angela Davis In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Andrei Sakharov In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Thomas Mann It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Thomas Sowell It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
    Thomas Sowell
    American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Natasha Josefowitz Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
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  • Albert Einstein Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alexander Dubcek Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Sir Hugh Walpole Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
    Sir Hugh Walpole
    British writer
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  • Horace Walpole Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Aldous Huxley My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Viktor Korchnoi No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
    Viktor Korchnoi
    Russian chess player (1931 - 2016)
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  • Benjamin Harrison No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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