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• Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

  Hans Rosling

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• If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That’s how rich we are.

  Imelda Marcos

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• I don’t think of myself predicting things. I’m expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it’s a question of how badly people want them to.

  Freeman Dyson

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• The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.

  Georges Cuvier

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• The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It’s a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

  Steve Squyres

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• I don’t know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I’m hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

  Christopher Darden

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• In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it.

  Christopher Alexander

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• I think I’ve matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it’s not about the celebrity status that you receive because you’re doing the next hot movie. It’s about doing good work.

  Emilio Estevez

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• Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

  A. R. Ammons

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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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• A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

  Bertrand Russell

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• The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

  Mary Schmich

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• It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

  Thomas Sowell

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• To the extent that the United States has, I don’t like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don’t think that’s based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

  Robert C. Solomon

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• We pardon to the extent that we love.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

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• A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

  Thomas Aquinas

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• The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

  F. H. Bradley

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• I’m surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

  Steve Wozniak

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• Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man’s greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

  Vicente Fox

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