#extent

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

#dictate #either #extent #increasing #languages

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#control #dependent #destiny #determines #extent

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#alternatives #between #chose #contemporary #contemporary history

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

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#children #extent #fellow #his #must

There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their place in the world and make sense of their lives? To what extent can they transcend their fate? As time starts to run out, what are the things that really matter? ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#clone #extent #fate #find #how

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world. ↗

— Charles Ives

#billion #expression #extent #god #great

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. ↗

— Sharon Tate

#certain #certain extent #everything #extent #fairytale

I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#heal #i #knee #make #priority