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to a great extent
«The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of it struggle to keep and advance its political power.»
Author: Whittaker Chambers
| Keywords:
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«The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -known to medical science is work.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz
(Professor)
| Keywords:
analgesic, antibiotic, antibiotics, closest, in short, medical, narcotic, narcotics, panacea, soporific, stimulant, stimulants, to a great extent, tranquilizer, tranquilizers
«No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Arguments,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
assuming, nonsensical, supporter, supporters, to a great extent
«What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
ductless, gland, glands, to a great extent, viscera
«To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
getaway, getaways, ignominious, lords, surprising, to a great extent, when the time comes
