Extent

Famous quotes containing the word extent:

“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“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)