#extent

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

#deal #divide #educated #equipped #extent

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

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#always #extent #large #large extent #make

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#books #child #every #extent #get

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#birth #extent #fairly #sensual #species

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent. ↗

— James Taylor

#easily #extent #i #i think #low

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#been #canadians #change #cultural #culture

I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#could #develop #ease #even #extent