Quotes with extent

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  • John F. Kennedy People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Hannah Arendt Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • A. R. Ammons Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • J. G. Ballard Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Alan Thicke So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • Brit Hume Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • John Burroughs Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • B. F. Skinner The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Jean Genet The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Szasz The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -known to medical science is work.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Ben Kingsley The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Smiley Blanton The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
    Smiley Blanton
    American psychoanalyst (1882 - 1966)
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  • Giordano Bruno The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable..
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Robert Lynd The virtue of a medicine probably lies to a considerable extent in the will to get well with which one purchases it.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Ben Bradlee They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • George Orwell To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Wallace Stevens To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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