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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.


John D. Rockefeller


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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 himself utterly to money.


Arthur Schopenhauer


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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.


Albert Schweitzer


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Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.


Ron Silver


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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.


Albrecht Durer


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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.


William H. Seward


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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.


Umberto Eco


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What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.


William Hepworth Thompson


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We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.


Cynthia Nixon


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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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