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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

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I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department. ↗

— Erik Larson

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For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power. ↗

— Max von Laue

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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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To some extent at that time, we injected rock and roll into that scene- we played loud and that was a huge turning point for that scene. We were involved in playing with all those people. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

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We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent. ↗

— Bob Livingston

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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

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The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion. ↗

— Maimonides

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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife. ↗

— David Mamet

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