#extent

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#anyone #aware #become #contribution #evident

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same. ↗

— Ben Savage

#extent #i #i think #lot #out

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

#deal #divide #educated #equipped #extent

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 '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bit #businessmen #era #error #extent

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true. ↗

— Cybill Shepherd

#amount #certain #certain extent #extent #i

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

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#britain #debris #debts #dollars #extent