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The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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