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• You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

  Gresham Barrett

  May, Causes, Conservative

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• Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.

  Britt Ekland

  Kids, Long, Lovely

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• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  Charles Edison

  Government, Democratic Ideals, Boss

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• Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and by this resemblance conceal what is not yet directly devoted to pecuniary gain.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Jobs, Looks

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• Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Smart, People, Public Service

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• I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

  Zola Jesus

  Humble, Artist, Skills

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• Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it.

  Richard Shusterman

  Appreciation, Philosophy, Self

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• The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

  Emir Kusturica

  World, Next, Problem

  "Momentum and Emotion, Emir Kusturica’s 'Black Cat, White Cat'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. September 09, 1999.

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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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• Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

  John Ralston Saul

  Mother, Father, Men

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is devoted to the up-building and development of the Negro Race.

  Marcus Garvey

  Hate, White, Race

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.13, Ravenio Books

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