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«I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
(Philanthropist)
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«He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.»
«If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish pig.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
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by-product, cultivation, devotes, pig, selfish
«A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
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«He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kittens to hunt, the birds who spend such strident efforts on teaching their fledglings to fly - yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes the child's education to the purpose of destroying his brain, of convincing him that thought is futile and evil, before he has started to think ... Men would shudder, he thought, if they saw a mother bird plucking the feathers from the wings of her young, then pushing him out of the nest to struggle for survival - yet that was what they did to their children.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
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abstract, abstracted, abstracting, concrete, devotes, enjoying, entirely
«Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right»
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