#extent

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

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I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

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I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent, alienated from the stuff going on around us. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

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I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

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Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

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A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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I see my job simply as helping disseminate the message of Barack Obama, working with the communications team to make sure that we're true to the ideals and the values and the programs that he wants to advance in this country. And that's the extent of my involvement. ↗

— David Axelrod

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