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• I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Science, Eggs

  Louis Agassiz (2003). “Agassiz on Evolution: Methods of study in natural history”

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• The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

  Albert Einstein

  Perseverance, Religious, Hard Work

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• I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Money, Selfish

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

  David Guerrero

  Happiness, Pleasure, Committed

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• GOD will not permit that a soul which desires to be devoted entirely to Him should take other pleasures than with Him: that is more than reasonable.

  Brother Lawrence

  Soul, Desire, Worship

  Brother Lawrence (2015). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.26, Booklassic

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• In my 35 years in business I have always trusted my emotions. I have always believed that by touching emotion you get the best people to work with you, the best clients to inspire you, the best partners and most devoted customers.

  Kevin Roberts

  Inspirational, Business, Believe

  Kevin Roberts (2005). “Lovemarks: the future beyond brands”, p.38, powerHouse Books

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• The world is by no means averse to religion. In fact, it is devoted to it with a passion. It will buy any recipe for salvation as long as that formula leaves the responsibility for cooking up salvation firmly in human hands. The world is drowning in religion. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that takes the world home gratis.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Mean, Responsibility, Passion

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• Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Peace, History, Tradition

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.71, Grove Press

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• Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

  Lena Dunham

  Reading, Add, Week

  twitter.com. April 27, 2013.

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• No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

  Florence Nightingale

  Horse, Nursing, Men

  Notes on Nursing (1860)

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• I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.

  Richelle Mead

  Alchemist, Needed, Department

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.96, Penguin

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• The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.

  John Steinbeck

  Years, People, Dying

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Once There Was a War”, p.23, Penguin

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• This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.

  Richard Baxter

  Study, Ends, Sanctification

  Richard BAXTER, Rev. William BROWN (M.D., Son of John Brown of Haddington.), Daniel WILSON (Bishop of Calcutta.) (1829). “The Reformed Pastor ... Revised and Abridged by the Rev. William Brown ... With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. Daniel Wilson. [With a Portrait.]”, p.26

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• I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Country, Opportunity, Honor

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• In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Rivers, Mind, Environmental

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

  William Howard Taft

  Art, Views, Mind

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• The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Love, Uplifting, Healing

  "The Art of Living in the World Today".

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• I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

  Lionel Messi

  Football, Home, Kids

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• All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Understanding, Triumph, Acrimony

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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• As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of our genitals convince us that there are more important things in life than wonder and happiness. we call the acceptence of this change 'growing up' and it makes us feel big and powerful in a world that would be no less mysterious to us than it was before if all of the fantasizing that we once used to explore the "unknown" quality of our reality had not become devoted almost exclusively to the notion that we are in control.

  Philip K. Jason

  Happiness, Children, Growing Up

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• Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

  H. L. Mencken

  Father, Dignity, Thanksgiving Day

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• Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a better home for those who followed them. Because every American generation attacked its problems with fresh vigor, we have peopled a continent, subdued its prairies and wilderness, tamed its rivers and devoted its resources to the betterment of those who dwell in it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Responsibility, Men

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• Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their archaic holy books, they sometimes oppress those who disagree with them, and they always do what they do in the name of an unknowable deity... but sometimes, they wake up. Occasionally, they realize that all religions are man-made and that none of them are ‘right.’ And when they do, they can live happy and fulfilling lives without dogma and without anticipating or fearing an afterlife.

  David G. McAfee

  Book, Men, Names

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Jan 13, 2013

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• There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Differences, Principles

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.386, Discovery House

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