#extent

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

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I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started. ↗

— George Thorogood

#confidence #day #extent #got #had

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow. ↗

— David Knopfler

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I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did. ↗

— Terri Windling

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Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#arbitrary #aside #believe #conception #even

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#business #end #extent #i #large

Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#been #border #canadian #come #country

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ↗

— Anais Nin

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I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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