Extent Quotes
1219 quotes by 962 authors
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the…
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed…
— Ayn Rand
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I am not going to allow myself not to perform well just because I don't feel well. I am bulletproof to the extent that a…
— Ian Thorpe
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It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the…
— George Orwell
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted by the possibility that Earth…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present.…
— S. N. Goenka
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You really do think about it institutionally; this is your job, and to some extent you benefit from having a job to do at a…
— Dick Cheney
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Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women...There's a very Neanderthal…
— Adam Levine
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Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you dance and sing to such…
— Rajneesh
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Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such…
— Sissela Bok
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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the…
— Mark Twain
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Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some…
— Alexander Shulgin
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While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility…
— Albert Einstein
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One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do,…
— Ellis Paul Torrance
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To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.
— Margaret Mead
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You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.
— Marianne Williamson
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full…
— George Orwell
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