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• We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

  Peter Sagal

  Athlete, Mystery, Sometimes

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• Over the span of man's history, although a phenomenal amount of education, persuasion, indoctrination and incantation have been devoted to the effort, ordinary people have never been quite persuaded that toil is as agreeable as its alternatives. Thus to take increased well-being partly in the form of more goods and partly in the form of more leisure is unquestionably rational.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, People, Effort

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1971). “The affluent society”

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• This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

  Louie Bellson

  Country, School, Band

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• I have always considered my career self and my personal self as two different and separate people. There's a Jayne Mansfield at home, a wife and devoted mother, and there's Jayne the sex symbol, which is my career. I have always kept them completely apart and separate.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Mother, Sex, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not need a man. I am devoted to masturbation. I think it's probably one of the most pleasurable experiences in life.

  Gloria Stuart

  Men, Thinking, Needs

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• No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Office, Liberty

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• Most of my work for the past 25 years has been devoted to organizing demonstrations, benefits and campaigns, many of which have had the effect of bringing a policy debate to public focus or moving a political agenda forward. It's become a cliché to say 'think globally and act locally,' but it works.

  Peter Yarrow

  Moving, Past, Thinking

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• We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Party, Sound, Principles

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

  Christian Bale

  Father, Men, Should Have

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• I feel that one of the roles of the artist, in the way I define it, is that I need to be not just someone observing these tiny pockets of people on the planet who have devoted their lives to preserving whatever it is they're passionate about. I want to be them. I am one of them. I just have a different outlet and final outcome as an artist than many of them would. For them, the process can just end in holding on to it, just knowing they've got it tucked away in their private collection. I value that so much, but I feel the conversation dies in a way there.

  Dario Robleto

  Artist, Knowing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

  Theodore Bikel

  Equality, Causes, Humans

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• Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.

  Sarah Vowell

  Ethos, America, Goal

  Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.33, Penguin

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• The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Kids, Cockroaches

  Jennifer Weiner (2002). “Good in Bed”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Atheist, Years

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• I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

  Anne Lamott

  Daughter, Mother, Earth

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.232, Penguin

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• Even now we feel that Stalin was devoted to Communism, he was a Marxist, this cannot and should not be denied.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Communism, Should, Marxist

  "Khrushchev's secret speech: a crack in the monolith" by Mike Haynes, socialistworker.co.uk. February 18, 2006.

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• My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

  Kenny Guinn

  Children, Believe, Abuse

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• It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called forth in human beings towards those who, having the power entirely to crush their earthly existence, voluntarily refrain from using that power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Gratitude, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill (1970). “The Subjection of Women”, p.34, MIT Press

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• Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

  Thomas Hardy

  Selfish, Successful, Men

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.324, 谷月社

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• So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Taken, Reality, Men

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3487, Delphi Classics

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• The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

  Douglas Coupland

  Weather, World, Vanishing

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• "We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them."

  Orson Scott Card

  Ender, Said, Our Lives

  "Speaker For The Dead: Book 2 in the Ender Saga". Book by Orson Scott Card, September, 2005.

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• Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister devoted friend she saved the world a lot.

  Joss Whedon

  Summer, World, Beloved

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Gift". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the disembodiment of the soul becomes the chief of worldly conveniences.

  Wendell Berry

  Spiritual, Soul, Wonder

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.96, Counterpoint

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