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• The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.

  James Wolfe

  Friends, Country, Believe

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• Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

  Chanakya

  Punishment, People, Administration

  "Arthashastra" by Kautilya, translated by R. Shamasastry, Book I, (Ch. 4), 1915.

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• Only when you are absolutely devoted to what you do, can you produce something significant in the world.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, World, Divinity

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• There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

  James Madison

  Men, America, Assembly

  James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1783-1787”, p.411

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• Let everybody know this. He shall be assigned to the place and to the service to which he gave and devoted himself in this life and he can be sure that in eternity he will have as his lot the service and the companionship which he preferred in this life. This is what the Lord means when He says, 'If anyone is my servant let him follow Me and where I am he will be there as my servant' (Jn. 12:26).

  John Cassian

  Christian, Mean, Companionship

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.48, Paulist Press

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• What I loved about bike racing was that it was not a mainstream sport. My heroes were self-made. There were no coaches, no training centers, and only a handful of sponsors. Training rides were not totally devoted to bike talk. I got to know a lot of riders this way, not just as good sprinters or good climbers, but as people who had ideas different from mine, jobs different from mine, and dreams different from mine.

  Steve Tesich

  Sports, Dream, Jobs

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• I ask for a stonger and more devoted voice... a voice for good, a voice for the gospel, a voice for God.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Voice, Asks

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• Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

  E. B. White

  Men, Quality, Half

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• There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

  Daniel Dennett

  Way, Polite, Folly

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• To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob others without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appetites for comfort and pleasure.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Men, Animal

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  World, Life Is, Obsession

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Jesus, Enemy, Would Be

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own.

  Kurt Masur

  Teacher, Add, Pieces

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• No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

  Richard Owen

  Attention, Structure, Barnacles

  "Darwin on the Origin of Species". "Edinburgh Review", 3, pages 487-532, 1860.

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• The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Past, Self, Progress

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• Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

  Burton Richter

  Issues, Energy, Directors

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• I went to Alabama, so I'm still very devoted to Alabama football and the SEC.

  Joe Scarborough

  Football, Alabama, Stills

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• My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

  Sissy Spacek

  Children, Two, Parent

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• I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

  Brit Marling

  Ideas, Parent, Want

  "Brit Marling Exclusive Interview Another Earth". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 18, 2011.

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• What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

  Gary Gutting

  Thinking, Knowing, Goal

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• Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrite, Views, Hypocrisy

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• I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

  Misty Copeland

  Thinking, Keys, Training

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Knowledge, Science, Mind

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• The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

  Herbert Schiller

  Communication, Mean, America

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• We have close to us as much as Joseph had at Nazareth; we have our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, but our poor eyes fail to see Him. Let us once become interior souls and we shall immediately see. In no better way can we enter into the Heart of our Lord than through Saint Joseph. Jesus and Mary are eager to pay the debts which they owe him for his devoted care of them, and their greatest pleasure is to fulfill his least desire. Let him, then, lead you by hand into the interior sanctuary of Jesus Eucharistic.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Blessed, Eye

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