#extent

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#feared #had #just #languages #manage

Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public. ↗

— Michael Schudson

#inattentive #ordinarily #public #their #wonders

My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

#always #attorney #being #completely #could

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance. ↗

— Nate Silver

#answer #extent #find #know #making

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#am #being #certain #certain extent #compared

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

#brought #extent #full #home #only

No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#extent #fit #football #i #keep

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#behavior #control #controls #culture #extent

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about. ↗

— Pink

#artists #been #decided #embarrassed #even

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

#excellent #extent #i #knowledge #possessions