Meaning of in a sense in English

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« The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. »
Steve Ballmer
« I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense. »
Tina Weymouth
« In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. »
Walter Pater
« Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. »
James Joyce
« When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice. »
Drew Barrymore