Extent

Famous quotes containing the word extent:

“We are thus able to distinguish thinking as the function which is to a large extent linguistic.”
—Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)

“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)

“He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)