Devoted Quotes - Page 10

• My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Science, Men, Thinking

  "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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• The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Doe, He Man

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.838, Jazzybee Verlag

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• God stands ready to allocate his power to all who are radically dependent on Him and radically devoted to making much of Him.

  David Platt

  Ready, Dependent

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• In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

  Jerry Pournelle

  Law, People, Goal

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• Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished.

  Joseph Pilates

  Men, Progress, Energy

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• God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him.

  Charles Stanley

  Responsibility

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• David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes the most magnificent music and he is a devoted and loving husband and father. I am so blessed!

  Didi

  Husband, Father, Blessed

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• We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

  Maria Monk

  Looks, Hearing, Remember

  Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.39

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• The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Strong, Troops, Action

  Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

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• At this moment in history, millions of 'working dads' are desiring to do what they do not feel they have the right to do: be more devoted as a dad, less devoted as a worker. This feeling is far more ubiquitous among men executives than women executives in many areas of the world because, for instance, Asia-Pacific women executives today are more than six times as likely to not have children than men executives are. The Asia-Pacific executive man is about six times as likely to be a working dad as an executive woman is to be a working mom.

  Warren Farrell

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.113, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Sacrifice, Egalitarianism

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

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• Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Strong, Skills, People

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.

  Burton Rascoe

  Attitude, Men, Fifteen

  "Contemporary Reminiscences". Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26, (p. 50), 1927.

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• The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about a better society which should then improve education, and so on indefinitely. Correct education could not come into existence until an ideal state existed, and after that education would be devoted simply to its conservation. For the existence of this state he was obliged to trust to some happy accident by which philosophic wisdom should happen to coincide with possession of ruling power in the state.

  John Dewey

  Plato, Philosophy, Would Be

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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• It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Eye, Allies, Tools

  "The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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• A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Way, Waste

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.796, Spectra

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• It must be so hard for guys in relationships - to have just one girlfriend completely devoted to taking care of all your whole-grain needs. I can see how at the first opportunity you'd just have to get out there and - sow.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Girlfriend, Opportunity, Guy

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• The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Wife, Effort

  "As She Lay Dying". www.wnd.com. March 26, 2005.

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• We have devoted ourselves to the government and extension of the Church, and, among other objects, we have conceived it to be our duty to foster especially literature and the fine arts ... next to knowledge and true worship of the Creator, nothing is better or more useful to mankind than such studies.

  Pope Leo X

  Art, Government, Church

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• Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

  Joseph Alleine

  Kings, People, Grace

  Joseph Alleine, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Alarm to the Unconverted”, Lulu.com

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• I'm seeing more and more books by celebrity authors, and I'm not happy to see them. I'd rather see publishing budgets devoted to genuine talents.

  Jabari Asim

  Book, Talent, Not Happy

  "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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• The key here are two little words: the word 'or' and the word 'and'. Nintendo is not an or company, with games devoted to just this group or that group. We're an and company, with games for this group and that group and for groups that don't even call themselves gamers yet.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Keys, Games, Two

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Cancer, Recovery, Night

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.

  Chanakya

  Ignorance, Punishment, Dwelling

  "Arthashastra". Book by Chanakya, Translated by R. Shamasastry. Bangalore: Government Press, Book I: "Concerning Discipline", Chapter 4 "Determination of the Place of Varta and of Dandaniti", 1915.

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• Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Differences, Different

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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