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«Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking themselves to what extent they are cowards. But the tests they set themselves / there is a dead body, can you bear to look at it? / are nothing in comparison with the tests that are sprung on them. It is not the obvious tests that matter (do you go to pieces in a mortar attack?) but the unexpected ones (here is a man on the run, seeking your help / can you face him honestly?).»
Author: James Fenton
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comparison, front line, go to pieces, mortar, set out, tests, The Run, to what extent
«Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination.»
Author: John Luther
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Character
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«Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?»
Author: Louis Camuti
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Cats
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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»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Happiness,
Life
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«We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Religion
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«To what extent can one have a sense for something if he doesn't have its embryo inside him? Whatever I come to understand must itself develop organically in myself, and what I seem to learn is only nourishment and cultivation of that inner organism.»
Author: Novalis
(Novelist, Poet)
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embryo, Embryos, in embryo, nourishment, organically, to what extent
«To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain; to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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God,
Religion
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«Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.»
Author: Confucius
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Ignorance,
Knowledge
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extent, ignorance, to that extent, to what extent
«Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
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