#devote

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Working long hours being single helps because your time is yours. Once you have a family your time isn't all yours anymore. Most of the Mac team, we were in our mid-20's, most of us were single, and we were able to essentially devote our lives to it. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually. ↗

— David F. Houston

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I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries. ↗

— John Cameron

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Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. ↗

— James Allen

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I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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

— Gresham Barrett

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I devoted my career to building an affinity with my fans who have supported me unflinchingly and no barbed wire fence or prison wall will stop that. ↗

— Foxy Brown

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So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

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